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10 THE OSHAWA TIMES, Thursday, July 27, 1961 DENNY REID (LEFT) STARTED VITAL SERVICE Lack Phone, Mail Reid Gives Aid QUESNEL, B.C. (CP)--In the; That's why Message Time on sparsely - populated ranchlands|radio station CKCQ is so im- of the Cariboo and Chilcotin, {portant to the isolated residents where neighbors often are five|within a 150-mile radius of this to 40 miles apart, the mail ser-\ community nearly 300 miles vice is slow at best and tele-|north of Vancouver. holes in the coat," one recent message read. Terse and mean- ingless to the casual listener, it told a story to a certain party at Klus Kus. Sent by mail, the message would have arrived long after the button holes were finished. The messages frequently are concerned with death or illness in the family ("Dad is much worse."), with business deals ("Your chicks have arrived. CPA agent."), with personal af- phones are non-existent. "Don't boher putting button fairs ("Am discing today, drop down if you can this after. noon.") and with hospital pa- tient discharges ("Joan has been discharged, please pick her up."). VITAL SERVICE Denny Reid, 42-year-old sta- tion manager and part owner with J. Fred Webber, started the three - times - daily service soon after the station went on the air in August, 1957. "We feel it's a vital service to these people who have no tele- phone or telegraph facilities to use," he said. "We know that all who can are listening every day because there just might be a message for them." "It's the Bible to all the rural people," said Mayor' Alex Fra- ser of Quesnel, who added that the station has helped to knit the whole of the area into more of a single community by letting people in one area know what's going on in the next. "The rural people know what all their neighbors are doing by listening to the Message Time." Message Time goes on the air at 12:30 p.m., 6:05 p.m. and 10:15 p.m. and it reaches a broad territory through CKCQ| Barge In Trouble Oozes Molasses LOCKPORT, N.Y. (AP) -- A barge carrying a 1000 ton load of molasses to Buffalo sprung a leak Wednesday and almost cap- sized in the Erie Barge Canal when the molasses started ooz- ing out. Almost 150 tons of the syrupy liquid worked through a two- inch hole and through cracks in the hull after the barge appar- ently struck rocks near Brock- ton. A skindiver sealed the holes with wood and okum Wednesday night and pumps were used to re-distribute the load and right the barge. TORONTO (CP)--On a Jan- uary day in 1928 fire destroyed the interior of Metropolitan United Church. Only the smoke blackened walls and the Gothic tower housing the carillon sur- vived. Next Sunda the carilloneur of that era climbed to the bell tower, wiped the grime from the keyboard and sent his cus- tomary weekly concert boom- ing out over downtown-central Toronto. PISTOL EXPERT SHERBROOKE, Que. (CP)-- An agent of the U.S. Federal Bureau of Investigation from Glens Falls, N.Y., gave patrol- men of the Sherbrooke police force a course on the proper handling of a pistol. then becomes payment enough. Mr. Reid recalls one message broadcast soon after the service transmitters at Q 1, in the north Cariboo and at Williams Lake, 75 miles south of here. USUALLY BRIEF Occasionally, it runs to 12 or 15 minutes at a time, but the average length is five to six minutes. | It's a free service in which the radio station staff generally are unaware of the story behind messages. But occasionally the details are learned later and the satisfaction in learning of the importance of the messages was begun. It asked a certain German trapper in the Chilcotin hills west of the Fraser River to be in Williams Lake on a certain day. "Later," Mr. Reid said, "we found out that this fellow had been in the country for five years and was due to get his Canadian citizenship papers. He had to be in Williams Lake on that date to be sworn in and if he'd missed the message he'd have had to wait another year to get his papers." Such spirit seems basic among men who play the bells. "Carilloneur" and "fitness" are words that just naturally go together. Except in a hand- ful of the newest towers where elevators have been installed, --T75 or more steps--before he even sits down at the keyboard, housed immediately below the bells. And during a perfor- mance his arms and legs are in vigorous motion as he pounds handles (called batons) and pushed foot pedals to make the bell ring. NINE IN CANADA In Canada there are nine true carillons according to the Guild of Carilloneur at Metro- politan Church and a member of the Guild executive, explains that the true carillon has at least 23 and up to 76 cast bélls, manually (as opposed to elec- tronically) operated by means the carilloneur has a long climb|2$ with clenched fists on wooden|But Men Have Spirit Who Play Bells of wires connecting the batons and foot pedals with the clap- pers of the bells In 1922 Metropolitan United acquired the first carillon in North America that allowed the player to have complete control of tone, volume and harmonies through a manual keyboard. The original 23 bells were a gift from the late Ches- ter D. Massey, father of for-|" mer governor-general Vincent, Massey. Twelve more bells were added in November, 1960. Guest performer at the 1960 dedication at Metropolitan was Leland Richardson, now in his 32nd year as carilloneur at the University of Toronto. A spirited performer, whose arms fly high e plays, Mr. Richardson in- advertently struck and broke the light bulb over the new key- board, plunging him into dark- ness only slightly relieved by stray rays of light filtering in from the bell chamber above. his concert went on without interuption because Mr. Rich- ardson carries his repertoire in his head. A newspaper photog- rapher, only other person in the tower, made a fast trip to an other part of the building to get light restored. MANY IN ONTARIO The other eight true carillons in Canada (installation dates in brackets( are located in Nor- folk War Memorial, Simcoe, Ont. (1925); St. George's Angli- ean Church, Guelph, Ont, (1926); Peace Tower, Ottawa (1927); Soldiers' Tower, Univer- sity of Toronto (1927, 1953); Cathedral of Christ the Hamilton (1933); St. Jean Bap- tiste Church, Ottawa (1940); Rainbow Bridge, Niagara Falls, Ont. (1947); St. Joseph's Ora- tory, Montreal (1955). Some of these carillons are heard the year round, despite the winter cold and summer heat. The temperature in the bell tower matches that outside, and since the trap door between the keyboard room and the bell chamber is left open by many players so that they may hear hat they are playing, loneurs shiver in winter and swelter in summer. The carillon keyboard has two rows of batons corresponding to the black and white keys of a piano, but the batons are spaced widely to allow them to be struck with the fists rather than the fingers. The accom- panying foot pedals are used |mostly for the large, deep-toned bells. The blow which makes a big bell ring may be of 35-pound pressure; the tiny, tinkling bell may need less than a pound of pressure. To reach all the ba- tons and pedals and to produce! blows of the pressure required to produce pleasing tones, the performer must posses agility, dexterity and a sure sense of rhythm Callouses are a hazard to the carilloneur who usually protects his fists while playing. Robert Donnell, Dominion carilloneur at Ottawa since 1939, wears heavy felt guards on his fourth fingers. Others, including Mr. Slater, prefer gloves. No Pet For Son' wns, Snake Got Away NEW YORK (AP)--More frag- ments from letters some people would like to get--but rarely do: "Gee, Mom, I hate to tell you this--but I can't bring my pet snake home from summer camp after all. It got away. And more bad news. My pet frog isn't going to have kittens. It's a aq is with real pleasure we inform yor your recipe for mak- caril-|ing chocolate - flavored peanut butter patties has won first nrize in our national contest. You and Jour husband can pick up the $10,000 check--and the two round trip tickets to Paris --at our o fice whenever you. . "Your boy's feat in pitching a no-hit victory for his kinder- garten baseball team has come to the attention of our organ- ization. "In keeping with the program of the New York Yankees for long-term player development, we are willing to give your lad a $60,000 bonus to sign with us now. Naturally, before reporting to us, we would prefer that he go on with his schooling--as later it will be necessary for him to autograph baseballs." eurs, bell playing is not even remotely connected with their regular occupations. But with the number of true carillons in North America now numbering more than 100 ' the roster of professional carilloneurs is For most Canadian carillon- A Sos A Si growing. 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