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- Canadaee towns*Highway:program y planetalk about the northern listener-1 at Fort Nelson, in northern Brit-ship of “Moscow Molly” — a ish Columbia.Four other stations are due toBy BERNARD DUFRESNE Canadian Press Staff WriterAOTTAWA (CP)—The CBC is I nightly program of music and ______ ________________acquiring radio stations in the carefully planted news from Rus-1 taken over by the CBC:North to extend its*br6adcasting s*a directed to North America. Fort Smith, on the N.W.T service to Canada,’* 32,000,000 ^ can be picked up on any short- berta/border; Hay River, on the northern population. Lwave radio set. Five or six men south shore of Great Slave Lake;This will mean volunteer an(* w 0 m e n announcers take | inuvik, the new Aklavik broadcasters in Dawson City, part*Yukon, can scrap their record- Many northern residents, in-1 and Goose Bay, Labrador.ings of wartime Bob Hope shows, eluding some of the 16,000 In- The existing stations are operi*some of which have been played dians and Eskimos, have xeceiv- ated by local volunteers witli15 or 20 times. From now on cra» Pue to quirks in atmospheric equipment supplied by the armedthey’ll be getting new programs conditions, in some' cases they jforces end the transport on tape. ,, can tune in to shortwave broad- ment. Some of theAnd listeners in Whitehorse in ?asts „frvn Moscow more easily dates from the Secondthe southern Yukon soon will be th®n fr?m,elsewher?M War and must be replaced.hearing the same Trans-Canada , ,. as.no.? Within a year, the CBCRadio Network programs as 5,!^ j Arctic, but ^ ]jnk Fort Nelson, Watson Lakethose heard in ■ southern Canada, CBC of lcials „are *in« and Whitehorse, and-nd at the same'time. I !Dawson- to the Trans -The service may end recent *whi fk ! ! J Network. Thefirst'Vancouver, which may cost .. S8”iioh th‘t.SPECIAL FUNDS line that can be used toMeanwhile, the CBC has set up voice-broadcasting a northern service with a spe-1 The CBC h#s asked ^ Cana.cial appropriation of $591,000 this di,an National Telegraphs to:^ mnG make certain changes that northern localities. permit undistorted musicalThe entire 1,500m square Mission on the line.miles of Canada’s north will not ^ be served at once by the low- 50. HOURS WEEKLYpower stations. For the present, Stations that become part the publicly a owned corporation the CBC system will get about is concentrating its .efforts hours a week* of tapedmainly in.. the ‘ western! Arctic recordings, delivered bywhere .the majority of the north- for• rebroadeasfeint about a :ern .population lives. 1 after the original broadcast.vXt has assumed control^of sta- The Whitehorse s tat i o n, al-.turns in Whitehorse and Dawson Leadyon the Trans-Canada Net-in the. Yukon and on Dec. 14 is work for three daily news scheduled to take over a third casts, will be hooked up for theoutlet at Yellowknife, N.W.T. - Grey Cup game in vTwo 40-watt relay transmitters next Saturday, are to be installed at WatsonLake, im the southern Yukon, and | folIo^s ^recommentation ofttJFowler Royal commission broadcasting that special outside the normal CBC be'^ made available to implement plans for shortwave transmit sions to, and low-power stations in, the North;With the Christmas season ap-prooehing we would like to refer you to our miniature gift shoe kit.SPECIALSGold and Silver Sandals— Values 7.95. *|Sale Price ............'i. • ' - .....Ladies' and Children's Overshoes, Slippers—Sale Price1.99 „ 2.99Ladies' Shoes—Values to 14.95 Sale Price—3.99 6.99Some Naturalizer shoes inthis lot.HAVARDSHOE STORESecond * StreetTNfiT ▲ T.I.ATinN.C
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Medicine Hat News
Medicine Hat, Alberta, CA
Tue, Nov 25, 1958
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