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24 THE SSHAWA TIMES, Friday, May 13, 3966 Inter-island trade goes on from the busy harbor at Bridgetown, Barbados and EASY SOLUTION UNAVAILABLE proposals for a Caribbean free trade area get a mixed reaction. The agreement em- braces British Guiana, Bar- hados and Antingua. Advo- cates would like to see it Maverick Battled Long For Unfettered News By GERARD McNEIL OTTAWA (CP)--If Dan Mc- Arthur draws deeply from personal files, such as the one on "skulduggery,"' his history of the CBC national news may have to be printed on asbes- os The files hold, among other things, a: memo-by-memo ac- count of the battle to build an unfortunately, objective news service in a Crown corpora- tion beset by politics and bu- reacracy. The other things are etch- ings and sketches, cartoons, poetry, doggerel and photo- graphs. One of the photos shows a handsome, well-muscled man in a classic pose, wearing only a concertina. "Who's this?'"' asked a re- porter. "Me," snarled Daniel Car- man McArthur, now 68 and unhappy to concede anything to age. The pregnant files also pro- duced a poem written in the 1890s by Bliss Carman, Mc- Arthur's godfather. Typed neatly on toilet paper, it is dedicated to 'The Prince of the Bohemians." The prince was Peter Mc- Arthur, Dan's father, better known in Ontario as the bu- colic "Sage of Ekfrid" who wrote two columns weekly for years for the old Toronto Globe and contributed to other publications as well. BORN IN BROOKLYN Dan McArthur was among the bohemians Brooklyn flat Aug. 12, started school in London, land born ina 1897, Eng- and was. raised through adolescence in an ivy-covered John M. (Jack) Gordon, 65, ,polds one of the prizes log cabin near Appin, Ont.. not far from London. He learned to etch, sketch, write, tap maple sugar; have good times and live a zesty, effective life. He organized the CBC radio news service in 1940 and spent the next 13 years in Toronto fighting, as chief editor, for its integrity. Now the CBC has commis- sioned him to write the story of the 1940-53 period. It was an era that imprinted upon him the level-eyed, set look of an admiral about to order a barrage. The determined deceptive. But it whole man. "He'd be sitting on a train looking surly,' recalls a friend. '"'Then without a word he'd take out his concertina, start playing, and all hell would break loose." McArthur excelled not only on the concertina but in com- position of limericks. On one occasion he entertained a group of friends for an entire evening with a combination of the two. FEW PUBLISHABLE He has the reputation of having composed limericks rhyming the names of any Ontario town 'his friends sug- gested. Among the. known efforts were rhymes for Pick- ering, Brantford, Guelph and Mount Brydges, none publish- able. A publishable, and non-typ- ical example: The people who live in Omemee Lead lives that quiet _and dreamy Their voices are low look isn't isn't the are Their movements slow Their complexions are peaches and creamy. If most of his limericks are unprintable, so were his reactions, as editor, to at- tempts to tinker with the news. His gamy cherished as morale-boosters by CBC executives and news- paper men A mild passage from one describes the personnel and administration department as "that fungus growth that now covers the whole CBC like a green mildew." A CBC man, recalling the memo with nostalgia, said: "Tf they'd listened to Dan 17 years ago, there wouldn't be the crisis there is today." He was referring to the controversy between Toronto producers and Ottawa man- agement over This Hour Has Seven Days. FIRED FOR VULGARITY Such battles are familiar to McArthur. He entered radio with the old Canadian Radio Broad- casting Commission in 1933 at $20 a week with a program on which he and Robinson F. MacLean clipped news items, adapted them to verse and delivered them with music. The CRBC fired him MacLean for "vulgarity" the result of a light-hearted are poem on the bathing problems | of the people at St. Genevieve de St. Pierre when the water pipes were frozen. "There never was a very good rapport between Ottawa and Toronto,' McArthur says. The CBC was young and intimate when he came into it | K WEAKNESS FOR BOTTLES: of his collection of about a 1,500 bottles. He's been col- a] memos are, and | extended but others fear its effect on their own indus- trial development (CP Photo) Single Service Almost Ready OTTAWA (CP)--Defence Min- jister Hellyer said today lforces integration lreached the stage 'steps toward 2 force."' now "for single He told the Commons defence} committee that no final decision 'on this has yet been taken al-| "delicate problems"} ac-| though the involved are under tive consideration.' Among the problems, he listed a single walking out uni- form, rank designation and the name of the single force Mr. Heliyer, reviewing whole defence effort as the com- mittee embarked on study 1966-67 defence spending ceded that the and integration raised problems. "very con RECRUITING IMPROVING Without giving figures, |Hellyer said recruiting in Mr jup 17 per cent from 1964 and five per cent from 1965, competition for personnel in ci- vilian life The first monetary integration and improved man agement practices in a $29,000,000 decrease in esti- mated cost maintenance and a increase for acquisition of equipment $34,000,000 in 1940 but even then were problems. One was the late Maj.-Gen L. R. LaFlecne, minister of national..war services, who tended to look upon the news department as a mouthpiece. The problem of Gen. La- Fleche was compounded by the late Dr. Augustin Frigon, then CBC general manager. "Frigon's attitude,"' says McArthur, simply to bow there was ' Bie tt ® to autiority. armed} has| final} unified | of the| Way first three months this year was|Just despite effects of| Station. of operation and) construction and} In Programs ~ By DON MacLACHLAN REGINA (CP) -- An inch- tabled 4 in the Sac ALi nk men. tice Top katchewan legislature in Feb- ruary recommended, among other things, the gradual es- tablishment of a youth and culture department. But if Dr. Howard Nixon, one of the authors, has_ his way, the youth part of it will be different -- young people will actually have something to say about what is done. "It's. about time youth was given a voice in its pro- grams," he says, explaining hat this idea is implicit in the report. "Too many programs are run by adults for adult pur- poses. You can't kick youth in the behind and say, 'Here, this is what you'll do.'"' The author of this refresh- ing point of view is the execu- tive director of the Saskat- chewan youth agency, a 38- year-old recreation. expert. He says his concept means a "complete change in the outlook" of many agencies and government departments involved in youth programs. One of the first steps will be formation of an 1i-mem- ber advisory committee of persons 16 to 21. And, says | Dr. Nixon with a grim, the committee and adult influence will be kept 'well apart." The report listed six major | problems with present youth | programs--lack of co-ordina- |} tion, leadership, facilities, money and research and the fact that the programs are 'conceived, operated and | evaluated by adults." GIRLS IGNORED On top of that, Dr. Nixon | says, the nearly 94,000 young people in rural areas are | sadly neglected. And "every- body is running programs for boys, and not girls, and then only boys between 10 and 15."' "At 15 or 16, kids start to | resent--no, rather start to question -- the authoritarian approach of some of these programs. They'd rather be able to have their own ideas | So why not let them?" < | Dr. Nixon, former recrea | tion director at Edmonton and a coach and organizer of foot- ball, swimming, wrestling and hockey in Alberta, Saskat- chewan and British Columbia, says more programs must be aimed at those over 16. "And here is where the the reor. pom or NEW YORK (AP)--Old rail-| they} into} stations never die, fade away-----usually |railway museums. away known as New York's And_ seldom, structure gone |has a down were evident| with so many souvenir hunters |financial transaction. lat the heels of. the demolition crews. For more than two years now, | Pennsylvania Station has been fourth Garden in the city's his- tory--has been rising. | When you walk along Seventh lAvenue and look toward: the 34th Street site, you suddenly discover that Penn Station is still there. But it's only cade of huge doric plywood jungle in which railway operates while the ter minal comes down around it, Meanwhile, the letters pour} in, from railroading jtions, museums, individuals, ail} jasking for a memento of Penn | Station before it vanishes com- | pletely. | The souvenir hunters are hot jafter anything that would pre-| jserve the memory -- from a} a [ticket stamp to a stone eagle, | from an "arrivals and depart-) \ures"" blackboard to a whole gate. And some of them know sxactly which gate they want. EAGLES IN DEMAND But the railroad hasn't faced up yet--though it must soon--to 'ithe job of deciding who will get 4 | that, g4| First--Purse $2,000 claiming, how they will get it, and jwhere they'll find it. | The only thing the railway is| Waterloo, sure of at the moment is that if) they _ want it, GREENWOOD RACEWAY -- 4B | TORONTO (CP)--Thursday's |Wood race results maiden 3 and 4-year-nids, foaled in Canada, 7 furlongs Ei Mixed Match lecting them for 20 years. (CP Photo) 7.50 4.70 3.50 13.70 8.70 40 (Dittfach) Alirahni (Robillard) Vichalma_ (Walsh) | Time: 1:31 Miss Oorono, Cover Storm, Irish Girl, Potente, Busher Count Sand, Brother Chervcl, jalso ran, Second Purse $2,100 claiming, jmaiden 2-year-olds, 4' furlongs senie's TXOUCH (Rob's'n) 11,50 5.60 3,50 [Bandit Boat (Walsh) 4.80 Sea Salt (Gomez) 2.80 (56 | MXABU, Jackson, Monisteo Time Jest ng Maid, Forest Mymph, also ran. 1-5 inquiry Caribita, Hogan's Sail, Shind g Sue To Rev Daily doubie; $41,860. TXHIRD--Purse $2,100 claiming, 3-year olds, 7 furlongs Java Jive (Harris King Jive (Turcotte) Quintuple (Fero) | Time: 1:30 45 Here's Lady Sue, Dollar Twinkle Jay, Royal Encounter, Al also ran Fourth--Purse lies, 4% furlongs Northern Blonde Richt Pade Dalton's Parneln Time :54 Pink Phantom, Lawless Maid, |Have also ran. 5 23.10 9.40 4.90 8.10 4.70 3.0 Scholar, Neediin $2,600, 2-yearold fil (Fitz's) 5.20 3,30 2.50 3.80 2.50 (Ditttac h) 2.90 All We Souvenir Hunters Galore » "At Penn Station Demolition But probably no old railway|spread, or one of those huge ihigher enlistment standards and| station ever took longer to fade|;metal gates that once opened than the grand old pile|to let Penn|gers pour down onto the plat- if eve, | lcoming down and a new Madi-) --|son- Square Garden centre--the} a fa-| columns; | the wide stone steps lead into a} the} they can have: it! Thursday. Green: | Complete Change Sought For Youth ideas of youth themselves _come in. They want to do dif- ferent things after that age. i mean, woe wains w zo paddle a canoe when he can he ant driving a hotrod?" The legislature, after hear- ing opposition charges of "window dressing' and lack of financial assistance, unani- mously approved under which grants will be given to help keep school facilities open after hours. "Money isn't everything," Dr. Nixon says. "You've got to have both the leadership and the facilities. We aim to give a little bit of help, a push .. . but we hope youth will really work at it and try to carry on. "One major problem, obvi- ously, is that there aren't enough -- people. people volunteer. . . can soon wear out--and be- lieve me, they do. "Then no one steps in to fill legislation | Only a few | and they } the gap. Or they become bit- j ter because they feel no one | is trying to help. And when that happens, the program is really dead. "Sometimes they forget the | purpose. A guy who's coach- ing hockey will » try to turn out NHL players. Who gives a darn about hockey it- | self? We're trying decent sorts of kids into de- cent sorts of parents,"' BUDGET IS $435,000 Along with the youth com- mittee, to make | the agency plans to / set up a committee of teach- | ers, municipal representa- tives and others' and a body to co-ordinate the work of gov- ernment departments. For, apart nanced programs in Saskat- chewan communities, "there's | overlapping in the depart- ments,' Dr. Nixon says. "And where there's that, you can be sure there are great big gaps as well." The youth agency has budget of $435,000 for period up to March, 1967, and | 'that's plenty to do the ex- ploratory work we need,"' in- cluding putting field staff into 11 centres in the province. Dr. Nixon, who has four daughters, praises the work of volunteer 'agencies and their programs for the approxi- mately in Saskatchewan. says, "youth knows wants; let's listen." a he it But, what for nothing, but they'll have to pay for moving it. And in the case of a 5,000- |pound eagle with a six-foot wing the streams of passen- forms, paying for moving it could turn out to be a major Most of the eagles, which once perched atop the massive columns, already have been al- located. One sits atop the Hicks- ville station of the Long Island Rail Road, because a commu- inity group and the LIRR got to- gether and pushed for it. A Long Island doctor wants jfour of the eagles for four empty bases in his garden-- empty because vandals stole the statues off the bases. Other requests have moe modest. One woman wanted hanging lamps and brackets, an adver \tising executive asked for 'a small waiting toom bene h,"' a Brooklyn been Wei ae ipiece of stone relief sculpture up to. 100-pounds and one. writer jwanted decorations for a base |ment hobby room with "a rail road motif,' | No Guts For Red Meeting KITCHENER (CP)--The K-W Club of the Communist Party of Canada has called off plans for a public meeting today be- cause it was unable to rent space here or in neighboring Roy Peter Semak, local club chairman, said Fifth«-Purse olds, one mile Real Runner (Harris) altsfordem (Turcotte) Broth Of A' Boy. (Fitz'mons) Time: 1:43 45 aknight Out, Golden Champ, Roberts, Lofty Visitor also ran. W. Woods and D. Krever entry. $2,500 claiming, 3-year. 18.30 7.90 3.60 3.60 2.30 2.50 Maior aMrs. Sixth_Purse $2,300 claiming, olds and upward, 7 furlongs Take Notice (Turcotte) 17.00 7.50 3.9 Young Fashion' (Konblum) 15,90 6.70 Tulran (Gomez) 2.70 4-year Time 1:30 Tanwood, Wings, ran Favour, Shining King Legend also 5 Spicy Ermine Sox, Seventh--Purse $3,000, 4-year-olds and upward, foaled in Canada, 7 furlongs Brief Attire (Fitzs'mons) 6.50 4.00 2.50 Flaming Triumph (Kornblum). 6.50 2.90 Plain John (Harris) 2.40 | Time: 1:28° 4-5 Gripet, Mornins' Mornin also Late scratches--Speedy Lament, Sark, Windkin, an. | Purly| Elghth--$2, 100, claiming, and upward, one: mi Chance Cover (Turcotte) Dandier (McComb) Meunt Market (Harrison) A-year-olds 6.00 3.80: 3.00 3.60 2.90 6.90 from the prob- | lem of stereotyped, poorly-fi- | the | PULP BOOM IN B.C. thirds of the country's for- est reserves, now produces about 20 per cent of Can- ada' s 's pulp and hopes to_ be 'MP Asks How RCMP Gained Munsinger Inquiry Evidence | (Mr. Pennell) submit the names OTTAWA (CP) -- R. G. L.,or electronic listening devices. " Fairweather (PC--Royal) asked) Solicitor-General Pale. who of those a eee vere ee \the government Wednesday how, reports to Parliament for the '#PPed. |the RCMP obtained certain evi- RCMP, said he would fall back "No member dares use a tele- idence revealed at the Gerda!on the stock reply given by pre- phone," said Mr. Nielsen, "un- |Munsinger 'using Logs head for the mill down a picturesque highway in British Columbia. The _ Province, _which_ has _two- turning out 50 per cent by 1980. (CP Photo) j U |RCMP investigative methods. Erik Nielsen (PC -- Yukon) sked Mr. Pennell if telephones jof members of Parliament were being tapped and if so would he inquiry without vious ministers--that it is not |less he gets an answer" from "{llegal'"' telephone taps in the public interest to disclose Mr. Pennell. 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