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24 THE OSHAWA Times, Inter-island trade goes on from the busy harbor at Bridgetown, Barbados and Friday, Mey 13, 1960 ye af 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 Me- 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- tos 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- 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." AcArthur excelled not only the concertina but t com- position of limericks n 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 isn't the look isn't Their slow Their complexions peaches and cream) If most of his are unprintable, so were his reactions, as editor, to at- tempts to tinker with the news. His gamy memos cherished as morale-boosters by CBC executives and news- paper men A mild pas describes the personnel and administration department as "that fungus growth that now covers the whole CB( ike a green mildew."' A CBC man, recalling memo with nostalgia, said "If they'd listened to 17 years ago, there be the crisis there is He was movements are are limericks age from one the Dan wouldn't today." 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 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 radio with the are, In Programs By DON MacLACHLAN REGINA (CP) -- An inch- thick report tabled in the Sas- katchewan legislature in Feb- ruary recommended, among other things, the gradual es- tablishment of a youth anda culture department. But if Dr. Howard Nixon, one-of the authors,has-- his way, the youth part of it will he 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 that 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. 1l-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,"' : extended but others fear ité effect on their own indus- trial development (CP Photo) GIRLS IGNORED On that | says nearly people in rural sadly neglected body is running programs for boys, and not Is, 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 teks foward Agla unified They'd rathér be Savina e to have their own ideas He told the why not let them?' commiltes Dr. Nixon, former recrea tion director at Edmonton and a coach and organizer of foat ball, swimming, wrestling and hockey in Alberta, Saskat chewan and British Columbia, Says more programs must be aimed at thase over 16 "And where top of , the Dr. Nixon 94,000 young areas are And "every Single Service Almost Ready OTTAWA (CP)--Defence Min ister Hellyer armed integration has the final said today forces now reached tage for programs defence that no final derision taken al problems" non on this has yet though involved are been the delicate unde very ac tive consideration Amon: listed a form the problems, he single walking ouf uni rank designation and the of the single force here is the Hellver. re defence effort a name Mr the s the com tudy of iewing whole embarked defence that integration mittee 1986-47 ceded and raised on pending, con the reorganization problems RECRUITING IMPROVING Without figures, Hellyer said recruiting in the) W4¥ stations. never die, first three months this year was|Just fade. away usually up 17 per cent from 1964 and railway museums 1965 But no old Mr NEW YORK (AP)---Old rail giving five per cent from despite probably grand old York's if eve than. the as New And seldom, ompetition for personnel in ci- away known of Station, vilian life The first moneta effects integration and improved man-jhas a structure gone down |could turn out to be a major agement practices were evident| with so many souvenir hunters | financial transaction } demolition in a $29,000,000 decrease in esti-at the heels of the mated cost of operation and crews maintenance and a $34,000,000 For more than two years now increase for construction ; acquisition of equipment coming down and a new Madi son Square Garden centre--the/Rail Road, because a commu- fourth Garden in the city's his- in 1940 but even then. there Souvenir Hunters Galore "At Penn Station Demolition they | pay into railway |spread, higher enlistment standards andi station ever took longer to fade|metal gates that once opened pile to Penn! gers pour down onto the plat and Pennsylvania Station has been located. One sits atop the Hicks 'Complete Change Sought | For Youth ideas of youth themselves come in. They want to do dif- ferent things after that age. wits I mean, who wants to go paddle a canoe\when he can be out driving a hotrod?" The legislature. after hear- ing opposition charges of 'window dressing' and lack of financial assistance, unani- mousty approved tegisiation 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. Only a few people volunteer and they can soon wear out--and be- lieve me, they do. "Then no one steps in to fill the gap. Or they become bit- | 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 plavers gives a darn about hockey it- self? We're trying to make decent sorts of kids into de- cent sorts of parents," BUDGET IS $435,008 Along with the youth com- mittee, the agency plans to set up a committee of teach- er municipal representa- tives and others and a body to co-ordinate the work of gov- ernment departments For, apart from the prob- lem of stereotyped, poorly-fi- 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 a budget of $435,000 for the 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 230,000 young people in Saskatchewan. But; he says, 'youth knows what it wants; let's listen." for nothing, but they'll have to for moving it. And in the case of a 5,000- pound eagle with a six-foot wing or one of those huge the let streams of passen \forms, paying for moving it Most of the eagles, which once perched atop the massive columns, already have been al ville station of the Long Island inity group and the LIRR got. to- Who | PULP BOOM IN B.C. thirds of the country's for- est reserves, now produces about 20 per cent of Can- ada's pulp and hopes to be MP Asks How RCMP Gained Munsinger Inquiry Evidence OTTAWA (CP) -- R. G. L.,or Fairweather (PC---Royal) asked the government Wednesday how the RCMP obtained certain evi dence revealed at the Gerda inquiry without using 'illegal' telephone taps 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) RCMP investigative methods. Erik Nielsen (PC -- Yukon) asked Mr. Pennell if telephones of members of Parliament were being tapped and if so would he (Mr. Pennell) submit the names of those MPs "who were being tapped," "No member dares use a tele- phone,"' said Mr. Nielsen, 'un- less he gets an answer" from electronic listening devices Solicitor-General Pennell, who reports to Parliament for the RCMP, said he would fall back on the stock reply given by pre- Munsinger vious ministers--that it is not in the public interest to disclose Mr. Pennell. CALLING ALL AGES 10 to 14 gether and pushed for it. When you walk along Seventh A Long Island doctor, wants Avenue. and Jjook toward the/four of the eagles for four 34th Street site, you suddenly | empty bases in his garden-- discover that Penn Station is!empty because vandals stole the still there. But it's only a fa-|statues off the bases. cade of huge doric Other requests have colic "Sage of Ekfrid" who were problems tory--has been rising 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 in a Brooklyn flat Aug. 12, 1897 started school in London, Eng- land, and was raised through adolescence in an ivy-covered gested Among the known efforts were rhymes for Pick- ering, Brantford, Guelph and Mount Brydges, none publish able A publishable ical example The people who live in Omemee Lead lives that quiet and dreamy Their voices are low The CRBC fired him and One was the late Maj MacLean for vulgarity"-- lL. R. LaFleche, minister of the result of a light-hearted national war ervice who poem on the bathing problems tended to look upon the news of the people at St. Genevieve department as a mouthpiece de St. Pierre when the water The problem of Gen, La- pipes were frozen Fleche was compounded by "There never was a very the late Dr. Augustin Frigon, good rapport between Ottawa then CBC general manager and Toronto," McArthur says "Frigon's attitude,' says The CBC was young and | MeArthur, 'was simply to intimate when he came into it | bow to authority." Gen You can earn money and gai valuable experience as an Osh and non-typ- columns; the wide stone steps lead into almoe modest. plywood jungle in which the awa Times railway operates while the ter lamps and brackets, an adver- minal comes down around it. tising executive asked for "a Meanwhile, the letters pour|small waiting room bench," a in, from railroading associa-| Brooklyn woman requested a jtions, museums, individuals, all|piece of stone relief sculpture asking for a memento of Penn up to 100 pounds and one writer Station before it vanishes com-| wanted: decorations for a base- pletely. ment hobby room with "'a rail- The souvenir hunters are hot|road motif." been born One woman wanted hanging are It's an interesting job for every young per- son who wants te moke his or her own spending money. 5 from an 'arrivals and depart- But the railroad hasn't faced|Club of the Communist Party The only thing the railway is|Waterloo, Roy Peter Semak, after anything that would pre-| - j,ures" blackboard to a_ whole lgate. And some of them know up yet--though it must soon--to,of Canada has called off plans '\the job of deciding who will get for a public meeting today be- sure of at the moment is that ifjlocal club chairman, said they want it, they can have it'Thursday serve the memory -- from a Red Meeti exactly which gate they want e eeting that, how they will get it, and cause it was unable to rent ticket stamp to a stone eagle EAGLES IN DEMAND KITCHENER (CP)---The K-W jwhere they'll find it space here or in neighboring $2,500 1 Address TORONTO (CP) wood race results First--Purse $2,000 J and 4-year-olds, foaled furlongs Mixed Match (Dittfach) Alirahni (Robillard) 13.70 8.70) aknight Out, Golden Champ, Vichaima (Walsh 4.60 Roberts, Lofty Visitor also ran Time; 1:31 W. Woods and D. Krever entry. 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