Whitehorse Daily Star from Whitehorse, Yukon, Canada • 58

1898 1958 PAGE 46 YUKON JUBILEE UHIIIIIIIHIIIIIIIIHIUIIIIIIIIIHIIHIIIIIIMIIIII Volunteers Operate Radio Station In Unique Community Project i Cartel iy CIsaM 1 206 Jarvis St. P.O.Box 188 north by fall. Broadcasting experts-consider northern Canada one of the toughest areas anywhere for' radio reception because of effects from the magnetic North Pole. These conditions, still far from understood by scientists and technicians, sometimes result in complete broadcasting blackouts. It is "considered easier, in fact, to broadcast to Northern Canada from Siberia than to beam programs into the area from southern Canada.

It was estimated that annual operating costs will total A CBC official, said some local stations now operated on a'volunteer basis would be taken over by CBC personnel. PHONE 2644 The Yukon's Most Modern lant In other cases, the CBC would have to provide broadcasting facilities itself. Some possible sites are Fort Nelson, B.C., Watson" Lake, Whitehorse and Dawson City in the Yukon, Fort Smith, Yellowknife. Hay River and Aklavik in the Northwest Territories, Churchill, Man. and Goose Bay, Labrador, Want Radio In East CBC experts also will visit Frobisher Bay, deep in the eastern Arctic, where the northern affairs department is understood to be anxious to see radio 1 Although there is no commercial Radio Station operating in Whitehorse, (Radio Station CFWH is operated jointly by the RCAF and the Canadian Army.

Station CFWH boasts a total output ol 50 watts and broadcasts wide variety of programs including CBC, Armed Forces Radio Service, and local productions. The noon news is received by teletype and broadcast daily. Evening news is broadcast live- from CBC. The Radio Station is entirely run by a staff of volunteer operators and announcers. Station CFWH-Broadcasting studio itself is situated on the Airbase.

The Commanding Officer RCAF Station Whitehorse and the Commander of NWHS appoint a manager and assistant manager to direct the operation jf the station. Such major events as the Grey Cup Football game and World Series baseball finals are broadcast live from Station CFWH. The volunteer announcers conduct interesting rise and shine programs and have organized several request shows. There is no advertising allowed, but club and institution announcements are accepted regularly. Station CFWH makes a valuable contribution to both the Service Personnel and the Community of Whitehorse.

northern radio broacasting program announced in mid-June by the publicly-owned CBC includes construction for operation by 1960 of a. 50-kilowatt shortwave station at Vancouver and an immediate survey of low-power local station needs across" the north. 1 The station at Vancouver will beam programs into the Yukon and Mackenzie River. areas of Northwestern Canada. A second station might later be built at Winnipeg to cover eastern Arctic.

Follow Protests The CBC plans, announced by board of governors, chairman A. D. Dunton, follow frequent protests in the past that northern residents often hear Canadian news first from a Russian woman broadcaster known as Moscow Molly. 12 Stations From this study, the CBC will establish possibly 12 stations in northern areas, each manned by a four-man crew one technician and three announcer- broadcasting facilities established There are no privately-operated stlf- TRAVELLERS Freshen Up fox the Best of Your Trip Our fast, efficient service on your garments will send you away as good as new. We're proud of our "Big City" service and we think you'll be pleased with the results, too, when you take your cleaning to Capitol.

For residents of the North we serve out-of-town patrons just like our city customers. If you live outside of Whitehorse, try our mail order service. tions in the north at present operating on a commercial basis. All are run either by volunteers in the area or by armed forces personnel. The CBC currently provides tape-recorded material for the local stations in the north where it can be flown in by RCAF flights.

Its most direct northern radio service likely is to sta tion CFWH at Whitehorse, which gets th.e CBC national news broadcast night ly over telephone lines. Under the new arrangement, community stations operated by the CBC will be supplied with 10 hours of ma terial daily in tape-recorded programs. These will be shipped by air. The shortwave service from Van couver will be aimed especially at the isolated But the local stations will have facilities for, picking up the shortwave broadcasts and re-broadcast We Service Hail Orders from Dawson Creek to Dawson City Ing them to their areas on regular radio wave-lengths. 1 In 1892 a rush began to the Forty Mile area, where good panning was operators.

It is hoped that some on found. these crews will be at work in the nitfnHrmiMNMMinmnitiHMMiiimiMiiumiininiHmHNRmnniHtiiiMntifffmnriiiiifrHtH I (-)(-)(- -)(--) (-) )(--'-) (--)-') )(- mm (-) ()(-) This land line telegraph order started bulk STANDARD Gasoline flowing into Yukon over thirty years ago. In 1929, Yukon's first gasoline tank car was placed in service on the White Pass and Yukon Route. Its departure from Skagway for Whitehorse heralded a new era for Yukon motbrists. The 1929 telegraph order, "Dispatch Tank Car No.

1" was another major event in Yukon Petroleum service. Sinde then, White Pass petrol eum tankers have provt YEARS OF YUKON MILEAGE BY HAULING GAS TO POWER THE WHEELS STANDARD BASIUHl I 2) lHEATIHC OllSi WHITE PASS YUKON ROUTE.