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TIMEOUTwithMaurice Smith. - _Juckes uill ease tcork loadExecutive director of the Canadian Amateur Hoc-key Association word is that Gordon Juckes will retire as a full-time paid employer of that organiation at the end of the year ... The chunkv grev-haired native of Saskatchewan — he was born in Watrous 60 years ago— will not, however, completely sever his ties According to Earl Dawson who likes Juckes is a past-president of the CAHA, Gordon will continue to conduct the CAHA’s business and other dealings with the European hockey people, something that has become more important and time consuming in recent years with the growth of the game in countries like Sweden,Russia, Czecholosovakia, Finland, Germany and Poland ... No man in amatuer hockey in this country knows the European picture better or how to deal with their officials, especially those behind the Iron Curtin, than Juckes____Despite his many years in hockey, Juckes is probably one of its least known personalities ... Like most Canadian males, he was actively involved in the game as a youth but quit playing when he was 18 because he couldn’t make it as a right winger once he left juvenile ranks ... He became a printer on his father's newspaper — the Melville Advance — and eventually its publisher and owner ... He attained the latter status after returning home from the war in 1945 ... Gordon enlisted in the Royal Canadian Artillery as a gunner in 1940 and rose to the rank of major ...After serving in various executive capacities in Saskatchewan and the national level, Juckes was appointed executive director of the CAHA in 1964 ... With the birth of Canada’s national team, he movedhis office to Winnipeg in 1966 . .. With the demise of the Nats the office was then set up' in Ottawa, where he has lived and worked since 1970 ... Juckes had worked hard and long for amateur hockey since the clay he first became involved and generally has not received the credit’ he deserves ....
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Winnipeg Free Press
Winnipeg, Manitoba, CA
Sat, Nov 08, 1975
Page 65
Full Page
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