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CKBB celebrates 30th anniversar The date August 31 1949 The place makeshift studio on the second floor at 26 Elizabeth st now Dunlop St The occasion group of broad casters civic officials and two men with radio in their blood and daring in their heart got set to pull the switch Barries CKBB radio was on the air And off the air Like the script from radio disaster movie bolt of lightning killed power for moment or two temporarily blacking out the dream of the stations founder Ralph Snelgrove SOUNDS CHANGE That was 30 years ago today and CKBB hasnt been off the air since The Big Band sound fw then has given way to the Bee Gees but Ralph and his brother and station president Bert Snelgrove still fill the airwaves reaching 100000 listeners week Stedy growth has mark ed that period The station now operatss out of fully modern and administration complex on Ferris Lane From beginning of 250 watts the signal spreads across Sim coe County with 10000 watts The original staff of has swell ed to 30 and Ralph Snelgrove created company Four Seasons Radio Limited which also runs the sister station CKCB in Collingwood Along the way CKBB shared facilities with CKVRTV which Dollars and Sense lph nel it Ralph Snelgrove CKBB founder and chairman of board of Four Seasons Radio Examiner Photo Station shows steady growth over years was founded by Snelgrove in 1954 Ralph PLANS TREATS Now to celebrate the stations 30111 anniversary management plans few treats for Barrie residents They borrowed 1949 automobile to drive around the city passing out 30 birthday cakes And programming throughout the day will feature music from the 305 and 40s To add to the nostalgia listeners can expect the recrea tion of news events from that era The station held an open house to celebrate its 20th an niversary but Bert Snelgrove said Well wait till 35 or 40 to do thatagain Price of gold By PAT CONROY For The Examiner Mention Ralph Snelgroves name and nobodys going to say Ralph who When it comes to broad casting the man who has spent over 40 years in the field has reputation which stretches far beyond the range of his radio signals from Barries CKBB Take for example surprise party held to honor his career in broadcasting The outburst of respect by some 80 wellwishers from across the country left the radio man speechless for the first time in my life That was two years ago To day as the station marks its 30th anniversary the man who started out fixing radios and now makes radio history sits in an office which lives and breathes radio The men who help run the station are with him brother and president Bert Snelgrove general manager Wayne Bjorgan and news director Grant Forsythe Behind Ralphs desk hang two huge photo collections which tell not only where he has been but who heis JOKED WITH PEARSON glance over the collage gives capsule history of the mans career and the people who have rubbed elbows with him Over there is Ralph and the late Ed Sullivan And there he and the late Lester Pearson exchange hearty laugh Further over stands picture of Ralphs appearance on Front Page Challenge Here with over 100 years of radio history gathered in one office you wonder where to begin Should it be about the growth of the station or about the change in radio broad casting in the 30 years of CKBB Before the questions come the founder speaks and right away you hear man talk about radio as way of life not just business Names keep coming up like the late Ken So ble for whom Ralph worked before Soble founded CHCH TV And Bill Hewitt the sta tions first sportscaster Ralph speaks of places where the seeds for the creation of CKBB were being sown particularly Owen Sound where he served as station manager before coming to Barrie Now he calls himself the only sta tion manager who started at the top since this was his first payroll job BARRIE FIRST LOVE But above all Barrie emerges as first love and you begin to See that Ralphs dream for station here came from soft spot in his heart for the area The need for good place to educate his children and what he calls fine general en vironment led him to the city took chance he said Now five children and nine grandchildren later he says Barrie has lived up to these ideals His roles as former chairman of both the Barrie grove radio Public School Board and the Chamber of Commerce reveal his commitment to the city The Barrie radio licence was granted in April 1949 Ralph moved into town on July It could have been July or he said But since the 4th is In dependence Day in the United States thats when moved was now my own man LIVED AT QUEENS Living in the Queens Hotel $2 night he set out to what he Imows bestrun radio station In just over month with the blessings of Barrie citizens CKBB went on the air and the rest is history The conversation continues as the four men trade anecdotes about the early days of radio like the dedicated announcer who smashed window to get the station on the air when he forgot his key Did we charge him for the window said Ralph They talk about the way CKBB has grown to communi ty service station holding it sown from the onslaught of Torontobased radio stations They say that AM radio has role different from FM radio and television with distinct local slant on news and public information programming When the men finish you know why CKBB has survived for 30 years and why Ralph Snelgrove took chance on August 31 1949 Quaker taps reserves of Pennsylvania crude TITUSVILLE Pa AP When Edwin Drakes steam powered drill bored into an oil pocket 120 years ago it became the first trickle of petroleum gush that greased the US in dustrial revolution and forever changed the way people live That 33metre hole com pleted Aug 27 1859 was the worlds first commercial well and proved for the first time that dependable supply of oil could be ontained by drilling Oil fever spread wildly scar ring the northwestern Penn sylvania countryside with hastily built derricks shacks and boom towns It was the beginning of dependence on oil dependence ever more ap parent amid the current shor tages and rising prices Today oil wells owned by Quaker State Penneoil and Kendall still tap underground reservoirs for Pennsylvania grade crude highquality oil particularly useful as lubricant This is still oil country said Mike Davidson tourist guide supervisor for the Drake Well Museum where 40000 peo ple come annually to see boardbyboard reproduction of the derrick over the original well Pennsylvania produces about Production decreases OIIAWA CP Industrial production fell by 11 per cent business notes three million barrels of oil an nually and had proven reserves of 1144 million barrels at the beginning of 1978 said Jim Bryner of the Pennsylvania Oil and Gas Association Production is up 25 per cent from last year so the industry is doing very well said Bryner an industry spokesman who thinks oil is still the short term solution to US energa needs We think we can supply the answer for the next 40 years In the meantime we ought to be developing alternatives solar coal gasification Originally oil was an un wanted byproduct of salt water wells One salt well in Kentucky produced 1000 barrels day of pure crude small amount of which was used for medicine The rest was thrown out Northern Telecom moves headquarters TORONTO CP Northern Telecom Canada Ltd announc ed plans Wednesday to move the headquarters of its worldwide transmission divi sion to Western Canada from Ottawa spokesman said the move will affect small staff of about dozen or so people in Ot tawa As part of the move the com pany has appointed David Vice 46 senior vice president responsible for the companys expanding activities in the West An engineer who has made career with Nor By RALPH ALEXANDER Dear Sir What will the price of gold be in August 1980 SG Dear My you do ask specific questions dont you Would you also like to know the date of the next San Francisco earthquake The price of gold like the price of any commodity fluctuates according to the sup ply and demand of that commodity Therefore in order to try to answer your question we should look at the various fac tors influencing the supply and demand for gold over the next 12 months Supply Agricultural commodities are usually consumed shortly after they are grown Most industrial commodities such as copper and platinum are maintained in inventories equal to at best few months useage Gold bullion on the other hand is owned in quan tities many times the annual industrial useage In fact over 90 per cent of all gold ever mined could be brought forth for sale if the price was right The two largest producers of newly mined gold are South Africa and Russia South Africa will have to continue to sell gold to pay the increasing cost of oil im ports Russia has to sell gold to pay for grain imports Much gold is now in the relatively weak hands of speculators who hope to make quick and easy profit If the rice of gold begins to fall this gold will be umped on the market The international Monetary Fund and the United States Treasury own huge quan tities of gold and are committed to selling gold from their stockpiles on regular basis Demand Gold is used extensively as an in keeps on rising dustrial commodity The current US recession will result in decrease in this de mand during 1980 Gold is used by many individuals and nations as store of value during infla tionary times This is function that money is meant to perform but with increased in flation of paper currencies gold is increas ingly performing monetary function However as the US recession should result in short term decrease in inflation this monetary demand for gold should decrease temporarily certain demand for gold has been generated by the belief that OPEC will soon demand payment for oil in gold in order to avoid the loss of purchasing power caused by the depreciation of the US dollar caused by inflation This change would be equivalent to another substantial rise in the price of oil The oil price has already been raised over 60 per cent this year and is con siderably above the level which can be sup ported by Supply and Demand Unless revolution in Iran eliminates that supply of oil OPEC will soon have to artificially restrict their production to support the cur rent price level Therefore it will be several years before they could start selling oil for gold RISEN STEADILY The price of gold has risen steadily since 1976 from about $105 to $310 It is overdue for correction Commodity traders often use charts and graphs to try and predict future prices from looking at past prices Im pmbable as it may sound these techniques seem to work From looking at recent charts and con sidering the above fundamental factors would predict that the price of gold would average about 8245 during August of 1900 At that time it will be good buy as it should reach $450 before the long awaited during the second quarter of the year Statistics Canada reported Wednesday The federal agency said the decrease is continuation of an economic slowdown which began last October Domestic production of goods and services fell by 03 per cent in the second quarter from its JanuarytoMarch level The most marked decline in the period ending June 30 was in manufacturing which suffered 16percent drop in output compared with its firstquarter level Grain crop poor MOSCOW ReuteriThe Soviet Union published figures Wednesday indicating poor grain crop in the Ukraine and said rain was hindering the progress of the harvest in nor them and eastern areas of the country Western experts said the yields compared poorly with those for last year and tend ed to support US predictions of harvest of around 185 million metric tons well below 1978s record 237 million metric tons Files antitrust suit WASHINGTON ReuteriThe justice department Wednesday filed two civil antitrust suits against Beneficial Corporation seeking to block the giant financial services companys proposed acquisitions of two finance firms Beneficial is seeking to purchase Capital Financial Ser vices Inc and Southwestern Investment Corporation for total of more than $175 million The suits allege that the pro posed acquisitions could substantially reduce competition in the consumer credit market Economic downtrend WASHINGTON AP An index designed to forecast economic trends fell in July to its lowest level in 18 months the US commerce department said Wednesday The 04 percent drop in the composite index of leading indicators last month was the third decline in the last four months The mdex measures such variables as work week business orders building permits and money supply We are in recession as best we can tell but mild and short in nature said Courtenay Slater chief commerce department economist Slater predicted further drop in the index for August mern Telecom Canada Vice was also appointed vice president of the transmission division Both Vice and the new divi sion will be located in Alberta The decision has not yet been made whether it will be Calgary or Edmonton Basil Benteau president and chief executive officer of Northern Telecom Canada said the appointment was firm indication of the com panys intention to expand its operations in Western Canada It is too soon to announce specific plans he said But we foresee major increase in the number of employees and addition and expansion to our manufacturing and research facilities in theWest research book Its tourist rogues The writing Omar Kyayyam was buried Omar Kyayyam Sort of interesting think civilization TAKEN TO TASK otherwise in my column wanted to touch upo parent bigotry which wasn persons of history are buried in England from kings to part is all done but Im up and down the length and breadth of England taking photographs of interesting burial places of the famous For instance Edward Fit zgerald famous as the translatorauthor of the Rubaiyat of Boulge in Suffolk and on his grave grows rose tree that is direct descendent from one that grows on the grave of But what want to mention here is reference made some months ago to AngloSaxon greatness and how its spirit had sort of spread through had touched even those who had no roots in England with sort of inspiration for the good and best thing in life and Somebody took me to task on that in letter to the editor dont normally respond to such letters whether critical or for while now The charge on the face of it was quite valid If had AngloSaxon race above others won thoroughly deserve rap on the knuckles The trouble is wasnt really doing that At least didnt mean to do so And in one of my biograhical sketches of famous Saint who was buried at Lincoln cathedral in my Guide make comment on just exactly whats at issue here in my ap Let me cite from my brief biographical sketch that ap the examiner Friday August 31 1979 pioneer New development approved $350million residential and commercial development described as one of the largest developments in the history of the city has been approved by the Calgary Planning Commission The development is shown in the foreground and centre background of this planners model The current business district is In the for background CP Photo Vancouver TV station alternative channel VANCOUVER CP Three operating in the black by the Charles Allard owner of Ed years after its first telecast target date television station CKVU ap pears to be overcoming its growing pains in an attempt to become an alternative to Van couvers two established outlets The shareholder squabbles management shakeups and pro gram adjustments common to most operations in infancy are almost although not entirely thing of the past Advertisers have begun to ac cept the station as an alter native to the local CBC outlet and the British Columbia Television station on the CTV network CKVU recently deflected potential takeover bid by an Edmonton financier and is in ching closer to its original pro jection of operating in the black by Aug 31 The station was plagued by deficits during its first two years of operation but its finan cial picture has strengthened considerably in recent months An interim unaudited finan cial statement indicated that the station lost $50000 in the sixmonth period ending Feb 28 Financial statements for the year ending Aug 31 1978 show net loss of $938652 compared with loss of $2193835 the previous year Although the figures add up to total deficit of about $3 million management is confi dent the station will be Another look Bigotry can reveal historical ignorance By DOUGLAS GREENWOOD Your friendly neighborhood columnist is in England to guide to where all the famous in quiet little churchyard at The move followed major depe share purchase in CKVU by Dr station pears in the Guide It concerns Saint Hugh 01 Lincoln 1246 1255 There are two Saint Hughs of Lincoln Bishop Hugh and the Saint known as Little Hugh the subject of this biograhical sketch As young boy Little Hugh is chronicled as having been crucified and murdered by Jews in mockery of Christ disclaimer of this is on view at the cathedral it being considered necessary to avoid maintining malicious libel against the Jews This is perfectly just and valid reason because there is certainly no cause to maintain such potential racial an tagonism any more than there would be to engender bit terness between Roman Catholics and the English church by monton Video and CITV an in ndent Edmonton television cameras brain Cameras used to be springs and gears rods and levers Nowadays however fine camera relies on light sensitive cells miniature electronic cir cuits and computer logic to make picture taking snap This assembly dwarfed by the finger which holds it fits inside Japanesemade 35mm camera AP Photo citing in detail the abominable acts of say Bloody Mary out the civilized world It when as queen she persecuted Protestants Inded Britons are such mongrelized race that bigotry in England clearly reveals historical ignorance It is entirely possible that some African and Asian blood runs in the veins of monarchs mingling with that of every country of Europe and the Middle East After all the waves of invasions that have washed over England from the Celts the Romans But this particular one have peared to set up the mean to be the point is that if largely consolidated racial group has achieved greatness in history theres no bigotry in citing the name of that group But bigotry there is if other races are not recognized as be ing part of the ta in full flow in the veins of greatness throughout the world with their Cartheginian strain represented in the blood of centurians settling in England the Angles Saxons Viking Germanic French all must have claimed to be now represented in what we now call the AngloSaxons ACHIEVED GREATNESS If such mixture has produced great race then all power to mongrelization suppose But thats not the point pestry of historical greatness and as being gs saws