NEWS CBK BROADCASTS ~ T~¥~~~DA ~~~J£~ ~ DAILY I • I WATROUS Trans· Network: (Trans-Canada Nelwork) 8:00, 9:00 a.m. 1:00. 6 :30, 540 Kcs. 9:00 p.m. 12 Midnight PROGRAM CRC Dominion Nelwolk: Prairie Region 10:00 p.m. CDC SCHEDULE Transmitter Times given in this Schedule are Central Daylight DATE OF ISSUE, MAY 12, 1945 PRAIRIE REGION Week of M.y 20th, 1945 612 Telephone Bldg., Winnipeg, Caned"

CBK in Continuous , "Peace, Founded on Justice" Radio Encouraging Operation One Week Conference and Study Big Prairie RegIon Transmitter on Ontario Paper Sees CBC Farm Radio 24-Hour Schedule Before V-E Forum as Big Institution WIth Day Despite Water Failure Bigger Future Station CBK, the CBC's Prairie (From the St. Catharines Standard) Regional Transmitter at Watrous, The National Farm Radio Forum Sask,. operated continuow,ly, 24 has become a big institution and by hours a day, for a week before the th.e very nature of its service it V-E Day declaration, with the ex­ should become much bigger. The ception of one period of three and radio has fully demonstrated itself as a half hours. a vital force in the dissemination of In the early part of this long news and entertainment and now in operation, CBK almost had to leave the field of conference and study it the air because of extreme high tem­ is accomplishing equal results. The peratures in the large 50,OOO-watt getting together of thousands of amplifier tubes when the water sup­ farm folk for the consideration of a ply for the cooler unit failed due to common subject at the same time is a a broken pipe in the town water modern achievement which only mains. Ingenuity saved the day, radio could make possible. R. L. Punshon, CBC engineer in This National Farm Radio Forum charge at Watrous, managed to pro­ is a listening and discussion group cure enough ice to pack inside and project for farm people. It is a com­ around the cooler unit to keep the bination radio broadcast once a week, temperature of the tUbes within a a news cast, a supply of printed study margin oC safety. Overheating of materials, group discussion by the tubes, however, remained a constant listening groups and a report back concern of the engineers during this to the provincial headquarters of the critical period of continuous broad­ findings of the discussions of the casting. groups. It is a big co-operative asso­ In Winnipeg, CBC's Prairie Region ciation. It is sponsored jointly by headquarters, news and program de­ three Dominion wide organizations partments, and the office switch­ namely - the Canadian Association board, "s too d - to" continuously for Adult Education, the Canadian throughout the week. From the close of the Trans-Canada network at Continued on page 4. normal sign-off until its re-opening in the morning, it was necessary for the Winnipeg staff to supply five and Joint Radio-Film a half hours of recorded programs Conference May 28 each night for CBK by direct wire. H.M. THE KING This service was maintained in order A joint conference oC the Citizens' "Let us remember those who will not come back: their constancy and io keep listeners abreast of the latest Forum, National Farm Radio Forum, news developments, with bulletins courage in battle. their sacrifice and endurance in the face of a merciless and National Film Board will be supplied by the Prairie Region News­ enemy,. let us remember the men in all the serVices, the women in all the held at the Fort Garry Hotel in Win­ room. services. who have laid down their lives. nipeg from May 28 to May 31, 1945, In the matter of live programs, "We have come to the end of our tribulation and they are not with us according to a recent announcement also, the Winnipeg program staff had at the moment of our rejoicing. by Dr. E. A. Corbett, director of the "We shall have failed, and the blood of our dearest will have flowed in been prepared for the V-E Day emer­ Canadian Association for Adult gency. Separate and complete files vain, if the victory which they died to win does not lead to a lasting peace, Education. were arranged for a number of fou.nded on ju.stice and established in good·will. .. A number of CBC officials will at­ emergency programs; music WaS "In the hour of danger we humbly committed our cause into the hand tend thls conference, lncluding E. L. of God, and He has been our strength and shield. Let us thank Him and chosen and continuity written. The Bushnell, Director-General of Pro­ His mercies, and in this hour of victory commit ourselves and our new task telephone numbers of musicians and grams: Harry Boyle, supervisor of to the guidance of the same strong hand." others conceJ;'ned were listed, 50 that Farm Broadcasts; Niel Morrison, performers could be assembled im­ supervisor of talks and public affairs; mediately to go into production on THE PRAIRIES CELEBRATE VICTORY A. B. Kemp, producer, Farm Radio the shortest notice. These plans went Forum; Dan E. Cameron, Prairie into smooth operation with the com­ (Jean Hinds on eBC Victory tangled the ticker tape in the tele· Region talks producer; Helen Magill, ing of the declaration. "Country Roundup, May 7) phone wires in odd hieroglyphics of assistant talks producer in charge of Scenes" and "Music of the Nations" In Winnipeg, the wind set the key Victory; it festooned the ankles of women's interests, Prairie Region; were two such Winnipeg programs note for the celebrations-a wind the crowd with white _streamers; it Peter Whittall, Prairie Region Farm heard on V-E Day. Other Winnipeg that whooped exuberantly around tossed hats up among the streaming Bl'oadcast commentator, and C. E. originations on the great day were the corners as if it had just been flags, but nobody seemed to care. L'Ami, Press and Information Re­ Continued on page 6 turned loose after long waiting. It Continued on page 3 presentative, Prairie Region. Page 2 CBC PROGRAM SCHEDULE Prairie Region

Touring West when Alys Robi and Don Miguel team again tonight. The orchestra, 1111L-_S_U_ND_A_y,_M_aY_2_0th_,1_94_5_--.JIll/ under Don Miguel, will set the stage with "Paran Pan Pin," while Alys All times given are Central Da1llight; lor Mountain Time deduct one hour. Robi is to foUow closely with an English version of a Spanish song, STATION CBK, WATROUS TRANS-CANADA "Deep Down in My Heart." "Perfume 10:00 CBC NEWS (2 MlIU.) (Programs 01 the Trans-Canada net­ d'Amor," by Morales, and "Ronrlco" work otJered to Prairie Region net­ 10:02 NEIGHBORLY NEWS FROM works or stations, not carried on and "Nightingale," by Xavier Cugat, THE PRAIRIES (13 Min•.) OBK) will be among the orchestra's high­ 10:15 THE PRAIRIE GARDENER 9:00 a.m. CBC NEWS lights. Also included are "Sense­ (15 Min•.) (Central stations) (5 Min3,) maya," the tango "Ultimo Zingare," Maria Grever's "My Margarita," and 10:30 LA VIE DES QUATRES 9:45 a.m. MUSICAL PROGRAM "La Vida," by Alfredo Antonini. (15 Mins.) Recorded. (15 Mins.) Songstress Robi will be heard again 10:45 CAUSERIE DE L'HEURE 10:30 a.m. MUSIC BY MOZART in "Tu Y yo," by Salvador Rangel, DOMINICALE (15 Min.,> Recorded. (30 Mins.) and in Ernesto Lecuona's lyric, "Ali 11:00 BBC NEWS (15 Min• .) 11:00 p.m. BBC NEWS REEL (15 Mins.) Baba." 11:15 CANADIAN YARNS US Mina.) 11:15 TALK BY RALPH WIGHT­ MAN (15 Mins.> APOLLO CHOIR (10 p,m.) 11:30 NBC CONCERT ORCHESTRA (29 Mlns.) The Apollo Male Choir, conducted 11:59 DOMINION OBSERVATORY DOMINION by W. H. Anderson. will be heard OFFICIAL TIME SIONAL (Programs 0/ the Dominion network today, in the period usually occupied. (1 Min.) offered to Prairie Region networka or by the Winnipeg Choristers. The pro­ stations, not carried on CSK) 12:00 MUSICAL PROGRAM H. G. WALKER, 0/ Toronto, manager gram includes a cOIDp06ition by the 5:00 SUMMER HOUR (60 Min•.) Recorded. (15.J!insJ 0/ the CSC's Dominion Network, who conductor, "0 Brother Man," and an 7:00 SONGS OF THE VOLGA 12: 15 JUST MARY (15 Min• .) will visit member stations 0/ the net­ arrangement, also by Mr. Anderson, (30 Mins.)· work in Western Canada during the of the old English setting of Ben 12:30 CHAMBER MUSIC 7:30 CONTRASTS IN RHYTHM month 0/ May. Mr. Walker will visit Jonson's famous poem," Drink To Me (30 Mins.) (30 Min•.) Winnipeg, Regina, Saskatoon, Cal~ Only With Thine Eyes." Other num­ 1:00 CBC NEWS (4 Min• .) 8:00 RADIO READERS' DIGEST gary and Edmonton. bers are: "Now Is the Month of May­ 1:04 WASHINGTON COMMENT­ (30 Mins.) lng" (Morley); "Beside the Mere" ARY (11 Min.!.) 8:30 STAR THEATRE (30 Min•.) (Russian song, arranged by Petfleld) ; 1:15 TO BE ANNOUNCED OUR SPECIAL SPEAKER 9:00 SUNDAY EVENING (7:45 p.m.) "The Swanzi Warrior" (T. Wood); (15 Mins.) RECITAL (30 Mins.) "There Rolls the Deep" (Nicode); 1:30 RELIGIOUS PERIOD 9:30 LATIN AMERICAN DDT was made available within "Hymn to the Night" (Rameau); (30 Mins,) SERENADE (30 Mins.) five years of its recognition as an "Open Thy Heart" (Bizet) ; and "Sol­ 2:00 NEWYORK PHILHARMONIC 10:00 CBC NEWS AND COMMENT­ insecticide, whereas penicillin pro­ dier Rest" (Somerv1l1e) . Mariorie SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA ARY (15 Mins.) duction was not begun until 15 or 20 Dillabough will accompany the choir, (90 Mina.) 10:30 WINNIPEG PRESENTS years after its discovery. This is due and will be heard in a solo number 3:30 CHURCH OF THE AIR (30 Mlns.) to the fact that since 1939 scientists to be selected. (30 ./Iofins.) have been mobiIJzed. to meet their 4:00 CBC NEWS (3 Min• .) country's needs and their work has been co-ordinated. to an extent never WINNIPEG PRESENTS 4:03 FORESTRY CONSERVA­ (10:30 p.m,) TION (7 Mins.> known before. Dr. Raymond Boyer __A!ofe:J-:1-- (Dominion) 4:10 CONCERT CORNER will tell Trans-Canada listeners (20 Mins.) RELIGIOUS PERIOD (1 :30 p.m.) something about thIs co-ordination Grace Lowery's songs for this occa­ and its results. Dr. Boyer is an as­ "On 4:30 LET'S PLAY DUETS Today's speaker is Principal W. A. sion are Mendelssohn's Wings of (30 Mlns.) Ferguson, of the DIocesan Theologi~ sistant professor of chemistry at Song"; "My Laddie," by Thayer; and cal College, . McGill University and the president the familiar song trom the days of 5:00 OZZIE AND HARRIET of the Association of Scientific Work­ World War I, "When You COme (30 Min"..) ers. He is a post-graduate in re­ Home" (Squire). Orchestral num­ 5:30 JOHN FISHER REPORTS CHURCH OF THE AIR (3:30 p.m.) search at the Sorbonne, at the Uni­ bers chosen by Roy Locksley are: (15 Mins.) Rev. M. D. Kennedy, of the First versity of Vienna, and at Harvard "Danse des Mirutons" (Tschaikow· 5:45 BBC NEWS AND COMMENT­ Presbyterian Church, Regina, Sask., University. Under the aegis of the sky); "By A Sleepy Lagoon'" ARY (15 Mina,) w1ll conduct this Sunda.y's Church National Research Council, he did (COOtes) ; "The flight of the Bumble 6:00 SERENADE FOR STRINGS 01 ,he AIr. research with British and American Bee" (Rimsky-Korsakov): "Marion­ (30 MilU.) scIentists on RDX, the most powerful ettes" (Isaac); "Spanish Dance No. used. I" 6:30 "L FOR LANKY" (30 Min•.) explosives so far (de Falla); and "March and Pro­ LET'S PLAY DUETS (4:30 p.m.) cessional of Bacchus" (Dellbes). 7:00 THE CHARLIE McCARTHY 'Ibis series is bringing to listeners CONTEMPORARY MUSIC SHOW (30 Mins.) the great. store of music written by (8:30 p.m.) 7:30 WEEK-END REVIEW Renaud Named the mastcrs for four hands on one Tonight's broadcast will be de­ (15 Mins.) instrument. Great comp05ers from voted entirely to the performance Commercial Manager 7:45 OUR SPECIAL SPEAKER Mozart and Beethoven to Debussy of Lhe unusual "Divertimento," by (15 Mins.) Ottawa. - Dr. Augustin Frigon, and Stravinsky will be represented. Bela Bartok. The broodcast is the CBC general manager, has an­ 8:00 STAGE 45 (30 Mins.) TIlIs Is the first time such a. series t.hird In a series of four, conducted nounced that Omer Renaud has been 8:30 ALBUM OF FAMILIAR has been presented in Canada and by Samuel Hersenhoren, in which MUSIC (30 Min•.) to further assure its success the CBC t.he music of prominent contempor­ appointed commercial man age r (Quebec division) • with headquarters has catted upon Thomas Archer, ary composers is being featured. 9:00 CBC NATIONAL NEWS in Keefer Building. Montreal. He (15 Mins.) Mont.real music critic, to prepare the Bela Bartok, Hungarian compOSer, scripts. The duettists are Marie­ is now a. resident of the United succeeds J. Arthur Dupont, who has 9:15 CLEMENT Q. WILLIAMS resigned to engage in private radio (15 Mins.) Therese Paquin and John Newmark. States, where in addltion to working Tonight's program includes: l'Hero­ at composltIon he has appeared in activities. Mr. Renaud was formerly 9:30 CONTEMPORARY MUSIC ique No. I," by Schubert; Theme program director at the French net.­ (30 Min• .) two-piano recitals with his wife. His and Variation, by Mozart; "Chanson work. In his new position, he will 10:00 APOL.LO CHOIR (30 Mlns.) early work is considered. to have a de Route," by Aubert; Slovanic marked. Magyard Idiom. The "Diver_ represent E. A. Weir, CBC commer­ 10:30 MUSIC FROM THE PACIFIC Dance No. 16, by Dvorak; and Adagio timento," one of his latest works, is cial manager. (30 Mina.> and Rondo. No. 60, by Weber. regarded as strikingly original. -- J 1:00 HISTOIRES DE CHEZ NOUS Screen Actors (30 Mins.) LATIN AMERICAN SERENADE Screen actors come and go, some~ 11 :30 VESPER HOUR 130 MilU.) WEEK END REVIEW (7:30 p.m.) (8:30 p.m.) times with monot.onous regularity. 12:00 CBC NEWS (15 Min• .) G. V. Ferguson, Winnipeg news~ (Dominion) Some manage to weather the storm. 12:15 CANADIAN YARNS pa.perman, will review the week's Perfume, birds and All Baba will They become public institutions.­ (Rebr.) (15 Mins.) news. fill the scene for LaUD music fans Frank MOrriss, on CSC, April 27. Prairie Region CBC PROGRAM SCHEDULE Page 3

Design for Listening casting car they surrounded it and were joined by some young soldiers IIIIL_M_O_N_D_AY_,_M_aY_21_st,_19_45__1111 and sailors; they climbed on the fun­ ning boards and, for a minute, it All times given are Central Daylight; Jor Mountain Time deduct one hour. looked as if they were going to pick up the car and walk off with it. STATION CBK, WATROUS 6:40 NEWS IN FRENCH (5 Mins.> This afternoon there's a service at 6:45 CBC NEWS ROUND-UP the Legislative Buildings; by now a 8:00 CBC NEWS (5 Mins.) (15 Min!.) into 8:05 BREAKFAST CLUB 7:00 MART KENNEY MUSIC solemnity has crept most (40 Mina.) CLUB (30 Mins.> people's thoughts. They remember 8:45 MUSIC WHILE YOU WORK 7:30 ON THE MARCH what Victory cost-a personal cost Recorded. (15 Mlna.) Recorded, (15 Mins.) to many that can never be repaid. 9:00 CBC NEWS (15 Min• .) 7:45 RHYTHM AND ROMANCE They remember, Loa, that Japan is 9:15 MUSICAL PROGRAM (15 Min• .) still to be licked. Recorded. (15 Mina.) 8:00 RADIO THEATRE (60 Min'.) In contrast to Ule celebrations of 9:00 CBC NATIONAL NEWS 9:30 ETHELWYN HOBBES the big cities, we have a. report from (15 Mins.) (5 Mins.) a small prairie tOiln. The CBC ar­ 9:15 CANADIAN ROUND-UP ranged to get direct news, by tele­ 9:35 PIANO INTERLUDE (15 Min,.) Recorded. (10 Mina.) phone, from Mr. S. J. Dornan, of 9:30 SUMMER FALLOW Alameda, Saskatchewan. Alameda is 9:45 MORNING DEVOTIONS (30 Mins.> (15 Mins.) a town of from two to three hundred 10:00 NIGHT MUSIC (30 Min•.) 10:00 ROAD OF LIFE (15 Min•.) people, In a, farming community. 10:30 HARMONY HOUSE In Winnipeg, the news came be­ 10:15 MASTER MUSICIANS (30 Mins,) Recorded. (15 Mina.) fore many of us had started routine 11 :00 BBC NEWSREEL (15 Min,.> work. In Alameda, the word came 10:30 SOLDIER'S WIFE (15 Min•.) What girl would turn down a chance 11:15 FROM ALL OVER BRITAIN to be a Powers model? SHIRLEY BLOIS. through a.fter the farmers had done 10:45 LUCY LINTON'S STORIES (15 Mins.) the Nova Scotia born lyric soprano their early morning chores; now FROM LIFE (15 Min•.) 11:30 FIESTA (30 Mins.) passed up her chance because she they're trying to plan celebrations 11 :00 BBC NEWS (15 Mins.> 12:00 CBC NEWS AND NEWS was more interested in a singing to fit in with their work-farm work COMMENTARY (15 Min•.) 11: 15 BIG SISTER (15 Min.,> career than making her jace her must go on-food is a weapon of 12:15 CBC NEWS ROUND-UP 11:30 CBK PROGRAM NEWS jortune. Shirley is starring on ..De­ peace. People are sticking as close (Rebr.> (15 MinsJ (5 Mins.) sign jar Listening," presented jrom to their radios as possible, and the 11:35 MUSICAL PROGRAM the CBC Ottawa studios Mondays at local telephone office in Alameda is Recorded, (10 Mins.> TRANS-CANADA (Programs oj the Trans-Canada net­ 6.00 p.m. jor listeners oj the CEC jammed with calls from farmers who 11 :45 MUSICAL PROGRAM work offered to Prairie Region net­ Trans-Canada network. want to know details of the celebra­ Recorded. (14 Mins.) works or stations, not carried on tions. Alameda has planned to bring 11:59 DOMINION OBSERVATORY CBK) THE PRAIRIES CELEBRATE­ farmers and townsfolk oogether in a OFFICIAL TIME SIGNAL 11:30 MUSICAL PROGRAM monster service of thanksgiving and (1 Min.) Concluded Recorded. (15 Mins.) prayer. In the town, fiags and bunt­ 12:00 R.C.M.P. BULLETINS 12:00 MUSICAL PROGRAM Celebrations went ahead, even after ing broke out like magic. and Ala­ (15 Mins.) Recorded. (15 Mins.) we heard that the official V-E Day meda took its place as a link in the 12:15 THE HAPPY GANG 4:15 MUSICAL PROGRAM Is tomorrow. (30 Mins.) chain of triumphant color that loops Recorded. (15 Mins.) People were just going to work 12:45 CLAIRE WALLACE (15 Min•.) across the Dominion. 4:45 MUSICAL PROGRAM when the news came through. They In his telephone report, Mr. Dor­ 1:00 CBC NEWS (15 Min• .> Recorded. (15 Mins.> reported at their businesses, most of nan didn't forget to say, "Now let us 1: 15 NEWS IN FRENCH Utem only to turn back and get out finish Japan:' And he wound up (10 Mins.) DOMINION to join the crowds. The elevator girl with "Alameda renders thanks to 1:25 MUSICAL PROGRAM (Programs 0/ the Dominion network in our building said, "It's hard to Almighty Ged"-snd I think that's Recorded. (5 Mina.) offered to Prairie Region network$ or ~ive service this morning; nobody the voice of all Canada. 1:30 CBC FARM BROADCAST stations, not carried on CBK) 3e€ms to know whether they're going (30 Mins.) 7:30 NEWS STAND REVIEW up or down." That's the way it was 2:00 WOMAN OF AMERICA (15 Mins.) all over. (15 Mins.) 7:45 BLACK AND WHITE I spent the morning trave1l1ng 2:15 MA PERKINS (15 Mins.) FANTASY (15 Min•.) around town in a moblle broadcast~ 2:30 PEPPER YOUNG'S FAMILY 8: 00 REMINISCING (30 Min• .) tng unit sent out by a local station 1& (15 Mins.) 8:30 INFORMATION PLEASE here. We stopped often at the corner , 2:45 RIGHT TO HAPPINESS (30 Mins.) of Portage and Main, the hub of (15 Mins.) 9:00 CONTENTED HOUR Winnipeg. At that corner, an airforce 3:00 MUSICAL PROGRAM (30 Mins.) band was going by-right along with Recorded. <15 Mins.) 9:30 PARADE OF LIFE the band, packed into the ranks and (30 Mins.) 3: 15 CBC NEWS (3 Mins.) clutching the airmen's sleeves were 3:18 CBC COOKING SCHOOL OF 10:00 CBC NEWS AND COMMENT­ dozens of civilians, mostly young THE AIR (12 Mins.) ARY (15 Min,.) 10:30 AUTHOR'S PLAYHOUSE women who fairly danced to the 3:30 WORLD CHURCH NEWS (30 Mins.) music. When they saw the broad- (15 Mins.) 3:45 RECITAL (15 Min•.) pianos will play: "La Vida" (Spanish 4:00 MUSICAL PROGRAM __4te1.:L.__ one-step); "Stumbling" (Confrezy); Recorded. (15 Mina.) "Captains of the Clouds" (Mercer­ 4:15 LA FIANCEE DU COM­ MORNING DEVOTIONS (9:45 a.m.) Arlen). Miss Bradshaw's songs are: MANDO (15 Min• .> Rev. C. E. Hotfsten, of Zion ·"I've Got A Locket In My Pocket"; 4:30 FRONT LINE FAMILY Lutheran Church, Winnipeg, will "Sentimental Journey"; and "I See (15 Mins.) conduct this week's morning devo­ Your Face Before Me:' 4:45 UN HOMME ET SON PECHll tions. (15 Min• .> NIGHT MUSiC (10 p.m.) MIRROR FOR WOMEN (5:15 p.m.) 5:00 DON MESSER AND HIS Marius Benoist's string program Recently returned to the west coast ISLANDERS (15 Mins.) Laura Hunter, Vancouver feature for tonight is largely classical, with radio scene ajter service with the 5:15 MIRROR FOR WOMEN writer, -will be the guest speaker on Handel, Bach, Grieg and Moussorg­ in/ormation branch oj the Canadian (15 Mins.) Lhe Mirror For Women program this sky the chief contributors. The num­ Army, Dick Diespeckers first im­ 5:30 MUSICAL PROGRAM afternoon. Her subject will be Fresh bers are: Festival Overture from portant assignment has been the Recorded. (15 Mins.) Trails in British Columbia. Salome (Handel); Fugue in A (J. S. writing and production oj a drama 5:45 BBC NEWS AND Bach); Waltz (Grieg); Air from series based on the lives of great COMMENTARY (15 Min•.) RHYTHM AND ROMANCE Joshua (Moussorgsky) ; "Brook men oj the past. The program is 6:00 DESIGN FOR LISTENING (7:46 p.m.) Green Suite" (Gustav Holst) and an heard on Mondays at 9.30 p.m., over (30 Mins.) Parks and Burdett, duo pianists, arrangement of "Drink To Me Only the CBC Dominion network, and is 6:30 CBC NEWS (to Min• .> and Gwen Bradshaw, vocalist. The With Thine Eyes," by Pochon. entitled "Parade oj Life," Page 4 CBC PROGRAM SCHEDUl.E Prairie Eegioll

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All times given are Central Daylight; JOT Mountain Time deduct one hour. STATION CBK, WATROUS 6:40 NEWS IN FRENCH (5 Min,.> 8:00 CBC NEWS (5 MIni'> 6:45 CBC NEWS ROUND-UP 8:05 BREAKFAST CLUB (15 Mins.) (40 Min•.) 8:45 MUSIC WHILE YOU WORK 7:00 BIO TOWN (30 Mini'> Recorded. (15 MIni'> 7:30 LIOHT OPERA TIME Recorded. (30 Mini.) 9:00 CBC NEWS (15 Mini.) 9:15 MUSICAL PROGRAM 6:00 JOHN AND JUDY (30 Min.'> Recorded. (15 Min!.) 6:30 FIDBER McGEE AND 9:30 ETHELWYN HOBBES MOLLY (30 Min•.) (5 Min• .> 9:00 CBC NATIONAL NEWS 9:35 PIANO INTERLUDE (15 Min•.) Recorded. (10 Mins.) 9:15 FEDERAL ELECTION 9:45 MORNING DEVOTIONS BROADCAST-LIBERAL (15 Min•.) (15 Min!.) 10:00 ROAD OF LIFE (15 Min•.) 9:30 KLA-HOW-YA, TILLICUMI 10:15 MASTER MUSICIANS (30 Mini'> Recorded. (15 Min,.) 10:00 BOOKS FOR THE TIMES 10 :30 SOLDIER'S WIFE (15 Min•.) (Delayed.> (15 Min• .> 10:15 TO BE ANNOUNCED GRETA KRAUS, Viennese-born harpsichordist now residing in Toronto, will be 10:45 LUCY LINTON'S STORIES heard as guest soloist with EttOTe Mazzoleni and a concert orchestra in CBC's FROM LIFE (15 MIni.) (15 Min!.) Dominion network broadcast "Dominion Concert Hour" on Tuesday, May 22, 11:00 BBC NEWS (15 MIni'> 10:30 CLASSICS FOR TODAY (30 Mins.) at 8:00 p.m. 11: 15 BIG SISTER (15 Min•.) 11:00 BBC NEWSREEL (IS Min.,> 11:30 CBK PROGRAM NEWS and her talk is a balanced summary winter's series is both broad in its (5 Min•.) 11: 15 OFF THE RECORD of advantages and disadvantages. scope and timely in presentation. 11:35 MUSICAL PROGRAM (IS Min•.) The five main topics can never re­ Recorded. (10 Min•.) 11 :30 ROY SHIELDS A.,"iID PIANO RAMBLINGS (5:15 p.m.) ceive too much thought or study and 11:45 MUSICAL PROGRAM COMPANY (25 Min•.) Jack Toulson, Edmonton pianist when studied in this nation-wide and Recorded. (14 Min,.) 11 :55 INTERLUDE (5 MIni.) who tries to arrange his programs in simultaneous manner should result 11:59 DOMINION OBSERVATORY 12:00 CBC NEWS AND NEWS themes, is in a. hearty mood today. in a much better appreciation of all OFFICIAL TIME SIONAL COMMENTARY (15 Min• .> Here is the way it runs: "My Heart the factors involved. Each topic is (1 Min.) 12:15 CBC NEWS ROUND-UP Stood St111" (Rodgers) ;; "Two Hearts divided into four parts in which the 12:00 RoC.M.P. BULLETINS (Rebr.) (15 Min•.) in Three-Quaner Time" (stolz) ; "My final night is given to a report of the (15 Min•.) Heart At Thy Sweet Voice" (Sa.int~ findings of the discussion groups 12:15 THE HAPPY GANG TRANS-CANADA Saens); The Sweetheart of Sigma. across Canada. Thus a nation·wide (30 Mini.) Chi" (Vernor); "Sweetheart Waltz" view is presented and farmers be­ 12:45 JEAN HINDS (15 Min• .> (Programs 01 the Trans-Canada net­ from "Maytime" (Romberg) ; "Sweet­ come better acquainted with con­ 1:00 CBC NEWS (15 Min•.) work olJered. to Prairie Region net­ heart DarUn'" (Noble) and "My ditions prevailing elsewhere.... works or 3Latw71$, not carried on Little GypSY Sweetheart" (Herbert). It should be quite obvious to all 1:15 NEWS IN FRENCH CBK) (10 MIni.) that the last word cannot be said in 11:30 MUSICAL PROGRAM 1:25 MUSICAL PROGRAM DOMINiON CONCERT HOUR one night·s discussion on any of these Recorded. (15 Min!.) Recorded. (5 Afin•.) (8 p.m.) subjects but the nation-wide con­ 1:30 CBC FARM BROADCAST 12:00 SKETCHES IN MELODY (Dominion) sideration of these subjects has al­ (30 Mini.) (15 Mini.) A Viennese-born Canadian harpsi­ ready started many new interests 2:00 WOMAN OF AMERICA 12:45 MUSICAL PROGRAM chordist. Greta Kraus, is guest solo­ and created desires for further in­ (15 MIni.) Recorded. (15 Mlns.) ist tonight with Ettore Mazzolenl and vestigation and concerted acUon. 2: 15 MA PERKINS (15 Mini.) 4:15 MUSICAL PROGRAM the concert orchestra in Ha.ydn'.s Comparatively speaking agriculture 2:30 PEPPER YOUNG'S FAMILY Recorded. (15 Mini'> "Harpsichord Concerto in D Major'" is on the lowest economic level in (15 MIni.) 4:45 MUSICAL PROGRAM While not amo~ those who wrote this century. The dragging out into 2:45 RIGHT TO HAPPINESS Recorded. (15 Mini.) extensively for the harpsichord, the open of all the facts concerning (15 Mini.) Haydn used the instrument as the food production cannot but have a 3:00 FEDERAL ELECTION DOMINION orchestral "leader" from which the beneficial result, not only for the BROADCAST-SOCIAL (Program! 01 the Dominion network performance of his works was con­ farmers but for all the world. There­ CREDIT (15 Min•.) otlered to Prairie Region network! or ducted. It was not until the close of fore, this employment of radio to aid 3:15 CBC NEWS (3 Mini'> 3tatW71$, not carried on CBK) his career that he switched to a time in the solution of the food produc­ 3:18 YOUR NEXT JOB (12 Min• .> 7:30 ALAN YOUNG SHOW beater,which in the 19th century gave tion problem should mean much to (30 Mini.) 3:30 MUSICAL PROGRAM way to the modem baton. Following both the producers and consumers. Recorded. (15 Min".> 8:00 DOMINION CONCERT thirteen Toronto concerts under the There is much talk about past-war HOUR (60 Min•.) direction of Ettore Mazzoleni, the plans and farmers need to be think­ 3:45 ARTISTS OF TOMORROW 9:00 BOB HOPE (30 MIni.) (15 Min".) Dominon COncert Hour will go to ing about this too. Farm Radio 9 :30 TREASURE TRAIL (30 MIni.) Montreal for the remainder of the Forums can, and no doubt will assist 4:00 MUSICAL PROGRAM 10:00 CBC NEWS AND COMMENT- Recorded. (15 Min".> summer series. These later perform­ greatly in the formation of sound ARY (15 Mini.) ances, beginning July 10, will be con­ policies for national activity. It is 4: 15 LA CHANSON FRANCAISE 10:30 WORDS AT WAR (30 Min•.) Recorded. (15 Mins.) ducted. by Jean Beaudet, supervisor not only a priVilege but also a duty of music for the CBC. 4:30 FRONT LINE FAMILY for everyone to be as well informed (15 Min• .> as possible and to pull his weight in RADIO ENCOURAGES CONFER­ the stream of progress. 4:45 UN HOMME ET SON Pl!:CHl!: __A/()te.:A-1__ ENCE--Concluded Recorded. (15 Mins.) 5:00 WESTERN FIVE (15 Min•.) YOUR NEXT JOB (3:18 p.m.) Federation of Agriculture and the It Snew and It Thew.-Thc Rou­ 5:15 PIANO RAMBLINGS Today's speaker is Florence TOdd Canadian Broadcasting Corporation. leau Enterprise had the weather (15 Min•.) of Calgary, who will discuss "Teach· It is also assisted vitally by the sized up about right when it said: 5:30 MUSICAL PROGRAM ing" as a possible next job. "I'm a thousands of farm listeners who par­ "First it friz and then it blew, Recorded. (15 Mins.> real, honest-to-goodness, chalk-and­ ticipate in the weekly discussions and An' then it snew, an' then it thew, 5:45 BBC NEWS AND blackboard teacher, not an inspector, report their findings where they can An' then we had rain; COMMENTARY (15 Min•.) or B. supervisor, or B. school board be compiled to present a common An' then it friz and blew and snew 6:00 ISABELLE McEWAN SINGS member," says Miss Todd. But she opinion, or emphasize the district or and thew (30 Mini'> doesn't deny that there are things other differences which exist. All over again:' 6:30 CBC NEWS (10 Min•.) to be said against teaching as a job, The outlined program for this -R. D. Colquette, on CBC, May G. Prairie Region eEe PROGRAM SCHEDULE Page 5

Choir Leader Ferguson Sees New IIII __W_ED_N_ES_D_AY_,_M_ay_2_3rd_1_94_5_1111 Tasks For Allies All times given are Central Daylight; for Mountain Time deduct one hOUT. It is a sad fact, but true, that nothing comes ever completely to an STATION CBK, WATROUS 6:00 INTERMEZZO (30 Min•.) end. Something continues. The very 6:30 CBC NEWS (10 Mins.) moment we seem to have got to the 8:00 CBC NEWS (5 Mins.) end of a road, we turn a corner and 6:40 NEWS IN FRENCH (5 Min• .) 8:05 BREAKFAST CLUB there fresh vistas and fresh exertions 6:45 CBC NEWS ROUND-UP (40 Mins.) await is. SO it is with the end of the will call it. Secondly, there is the 7:45 CBC SPORT REVIEW 9:30 ETHELWYN HOBBES job, already in our hands, of dealing (15 Mins.) with Germany, the fragments of (5 Mins.) 8:00 COMRADES IN ARMS 9:35 PIANO INTERLUDE (30 Mins.) what was once the German state, this mass of 60 or 75 million demoral­ Recorded. (10 Mina,) 8:30 CURTAIN TIME (30 Min• .) ized people who have found all their 9:45 MORNING DEVOTIONS 9:00 CBC NATIONAL NEWS dreams of greatness crumble into (15 Min• .) (15 Mins.) something like the rubble of their 10:00 ROAD OF LIFE (15 Mlns.) 9:15 THE SOLDIER'S RETURN citles. ... There is not one single 10:15 MASTER MUSICIANS (15 Mins.) prominent German left with whom Recorded. (15 Mina.> 9:30 FEDERAL ELECTION we can conduct negotiations safely. 10:30 SOLDIER'S WIFE (15 Min•.) BROADCAST-C.C.F. (30 Mins,) ... The future government of Ger· 10:45 LUCY LINTON'S STORIES BERYTHE BmsE, who conducts the many must therefore now be built FROM LIFE (15 Mins.) 10: 00 SPRING CONCERT Young Women's Musical Club Choir from the very ground up. We can't (30 Min•.) 11 :00 BBC NEWS (15 Min•.) in the CBC Spring Concert series, annihilate the whole nation.... The 11:15 BIG SISTER (15 Min•.) 10:30 NORMAN HARRIS' the second concert 01 Which will be new government must come out of ORCHESTRA (30 Min,.) 11:30 CBK PROGRAM NEWS heard on the Trans-Canada Western the grass roots. That won't happen it <5 Mins.) 11 :00 BBC NEWSREEL (15 Min•.) network on Wednesday, May 23 at the Big Three fall out, if they begin 11:35 MUSICAL PROGRAM 11:15 CURRENT EVENTS 10:00 p.m. CDT. The choir is heard to quarrel among themselves. If that Recorded. (10 Mina.) (15 Min• .> with an eighteen-piece orchestra un­ happens, the Germans will be up on 11:45 MUSICAL PROGRAM 11:30 WOODWIND QUINTET der the direction 01 ROy Locksley. top again in a very short time. This Recorded. (14 Mins.) (30 Min•.) 1s a prophecy which can be made INTERMEZZO (6 p.m.) 11:59 DOMINION OBSERVATORY 12:00 CBC NEWS AND NEWS with utter certainty.-G. V.Ferguson, OFFICIAL TIME SIGNAL COMMENTARY (15 Min.,> Harold Sumberg and his string en­ on CBC V-E Day, May 8. (1 Min.) 12:15 CBC NEWS ROUND-UP semble will have Mary Palmateer as 12:00 R.C.M.P. BULLETINS (Rebr.) (15 Min•.) guest soloist. She will be heard in (15 Mins.) TRANS-CANADA "Fair House of JOY," by Roger Quil­ Tantramar 12:15 THE HAPPY GANG (Programs 0/ the Trans-Canada net­ ter; Tschaikowsky's "None But the Tantramar-a strange and beauU· (30 Mins,) work oOered ot Prairie Region, net­ Lonely Heart," and "0 Peaceful Eng­ tul word-remarkable even amongst 12:45 CLAIRE WALLACE works ar stations, not carried on land," by Sir Edward German. Har­ the wealth of magnitlcent place (I5 Mins.) CBK) old Sumberg. violinist and conductor names to be found throughout the 1:00 CBC NEWS (15 Min• .) 11:30 MUSICAL PROGRAM of "Intermezzo," wlll direct the or~ Maritimes. I wondered about that 1: 15 NEWS IN FRENCH Recorded. (15 Mins.> chestra in "Rondo Expressivo," by word and later found that it came (10 Mina.) 12:00 MUSICAL PROGRAM Beethoven; Chopin's "Polish Mazur­ from an old Indian expression coined. 1:25 MUSICAL PROGRAM Recorded. (15 Mins.) ka"; "Panis Angel1cus," by Cesar to describe the noise made by the Recorded. (5 Mins,) 4:15 MUSICAL PROGRAM Franck, and "Puppets," a suite for innumerable wild birds that haunted strings, by Frederick Bye. 1:30 CBC FARM BROADCAST Recorded. (15 Mins.) these tidal marshes in the old days. (30 Min• .) 4:45 MUSICAL PROGRAM As I stood there and wondered THROUGH THE YEARS (7 p.m.) 2:00 WOMAN OF AMERICA Recorded. (15 Mins.> about the historic past, I turned and (15 Mins.) "Love Is On the Air Tonight" opens looked up, my eyes following the DOMINION the broadcast, with Alan Mciver's 2:15 MA PERKINS U5 Mina.) strong slender line of an immense (Programs 0/ the Dominion network Orchestra, contralto Simonne, and 2:30 PEPPER YOUNG'S FAMILY offered to Prairie Region netwOrks OT tower, soaring like a rapier into the tenor Raymond Cardin. "Cuban Love blue sky. Around me there were other (15 Mins.) stations, not carried on CBK) Song" and Cole Porter's "I Love You" 2:45 RIGHT TO HAPPINESS steel towers, some higher, others re­ 6:30 ELLERY QUEEN are other orchestra numbers and sembling ordinary telegraph poles. (15 Min•.) (30 Mins.) (Central Stns.) Simonne carries on the theme in Between some of the large towers 3:00 MUSICAL PROGRAM 7:00 JACK CARSON (30 Min•.) "Falling In Love With Love" and Recorded. (15 Mins.) where hung what I must describe as 7:30 MA CHANSON (30 Min•.) "Let Me Love You Tonight." Ray­ curtains of dark metallic lace-huge 3:15 CBC NEWS (3 Min• .) 9:00 DOMINION SCENES mond Cardin completes the romantic yet delicate and precise patterns, 3:18 ETHELWYN HOBBES <15 Mins,) mood in "Love, Here Is My Heart" composed of countless wires and in­ (12 Min•.) 9: 15 FEDERAL ELECTION and "Tell Me That You Love Me To­ sulators. 3:30 MUSICAL PROGRAM BROADCAST-LABOR­ night." I was standing in the midst of the Recorded. (15 Mins.) PROGRESSIVE (15 Min•.) antenna system of Canada's new 3:45 MUSIC STYLED FOR 9:30 CLARY'S GAZETTE DOMINION SCENES (9 p.m.) short-wave radio transmitter. Min• .) STRINGS (15 (30 Mins.) (Dominion) Gerald Noxon, on CBe. 4:00 MUSICAL PROGRAM 10:00 CBC NEWS AND COM­ Hartley McVicar takes his wander­ Recorded. (15 Mins,) MENTARY (Central stns.) ing microphone to a boat~ building 4: 15 LA FIANCltE DU COM­ <15 Mins.) centre to bring listeners a report CaRada Western program, scheduled MANDO (15 Min•.) 10:30 GRAND OLD SONGS on what's in the yards. Going to at present for two more occasions, 4:30 FRONT LINE FAMILY (Alta. stns.) (30 Mins.) Gravenhurst, Muskoka boat centre, The choral program for tonight in­ (15 Min•.) 11 :30 ELLERY QUEEN Mr. McVicar will interview Th.omas cludes: "The Sky Is Full of Clouds" 4:45 UN HOMME ET SON PltCHE (Mountain stns.> (30 Mins.) Gravette, of that town, who will talk (Davies) ; "Follow Me Down to Car­ (15 Min•.) about the kind of speedboats and low" (Irish folk song) ; "Londonderry 5:00 DON MESSER AND HIS water craft the builders are planning Air" (traditional Irish air); "Deep ISLANDERS (15 Min•.) A/ote.:.r...~ there, River" (spiritual>; "Katerina" (Uk­ 5:15 HOMEMAKERS' __ _ ..... rainian folk danc~). The orchestral PROGRAM (15 Min•.) HOMEMAKERS PROGRAM SPRING CONCERT (10 p.m.) numbers are: "Badinage" (Herbert); (6:16 p.m.) 5:30 MUSICAL PROGRAM Roy Locksley's la-piece orchestra "Barcarolle" (Tschaikowsky); .ISch_ Recorded. (15 Mins.) The subject today is "Can All You and the 40-voice choir of the Young erzo," from Midsummer Night's 5:45 BBC NEWS AND Can," and the speaker is peggy Vann Women's Musical Club of Winnipeg Dream (Mendelssohn) : "Carillon COMMENTARY (15 Min•.) of Winnipeg. are heard in this new CBe Trans- from L'Arlesienne Suite" (Bizet). Page 6 CBC PROGRAM SCHEDULE Prairie Region

seed. Water must be got well down into the soil and the surface kept 11~ __T_HU_R_S_DA_Y_I_M_a_y_24_t_h/_19_4_5__11111 The Prairie Gardener I moist until seed germinates and grass roots get hold. Summary of Broadcast, May 13, 1946 All ttmea given are Central Daylight; lOT Mountain Time deduct one hour. (e) Time: Cool cloudy weather is Mother's Day: preferable. For this sooson late May STATION CBK, WATROUS 6:40 NEWS IN FRENCH (5 Min• .> Mother's Day is a. fine institution 6:45 CBC NEWS ROUND-UP and early June are usually favourable 8:00 CBC NEWS (5 Min• .) but let's make every day .Mother's periods. (15 Mins.) Day. 8:05 BREAKFAST CLUB 7:00 DRAMA (30 Mins.> Bouquets for Mothers can take (f) Kind of seed: Depends on dis­ (40 Min• .) 7:30 MERCHANT NAVY SHOW trict, soil, and purpose. Consult the many forms-a flower bed in the 8:45 MUSIC WHILE YOU WORK (30 Mins.) nearest recognized authority and buy Recorded. (15 Mins.) yard, a tree by the driveway, a lUy 8:00 BING CROSBY MUSIC HALL pool, a rockery. a specimen plant, n the best grade of seed from a reliable 9:00 CBC NEWS (15 Min• .) (30 Min•.) dealer. In cities consult the Parks window box. Let's build a bouquet 8:30 FIGHTING NAVY (30 Min• .) Superintendent. Outside cities con­ 9:15 MUSICAL PROGRAM for mother and all other mothers Recorded. (15 Min•.) 9:00 CBC NATIONAL NEWS sult the Horticultural Department of (15 Min•.) who pass our way. That's a. good way 9:30 ETHELWYN HOBBES to celebrate the Victory mothers' the nearest University or the nearest (5 Mins.) 9:15 PROMENADE SYMPHONY Dominion Experimental ,Farm. CONCERT (45 Mins.) sacrltlces and love and tears have 9:35 PIANO INTERLUDE made possible. Recorded. (10 Mins.) 10:00 DRAMA (30 Mins.) Lawn Making: 9:45 MORNING DEVOTIONS 10:30 MUSIC OF THE NEW Burma (15 Mins.) WORLD (30 Mins.) 1. Lawn making must be fitted to local conditions of soil, moisture and 10:00 ROAD OF LIFE (15 Mins.) 11:00 BBC NEWS REEL (15 Min,.) The Commander-in-chief on the 11:15 LONDON LETI'ER (15 Mins.) the purpose for which it's used. Each Burma front is Lord Louis Mount­ 10:15 MASTER MUSICIANS lawn maker has to work out his Recorded. (15 Min•.) 11:30 THE FOUR SHADES batten. Just the other day, he sent a (15 Mins.) problem according to his district and message to Mr. Churchill saying that 10:30 SOLDIER'S WIFE (15 Min• .) 11:45 SERENADE IN RHYTHM needs. the part of the Burma Road which 10:45 LUCY LINTON'S STORIES (15 Mins.) starts in India is now open. Tnlcb FROM LIFE (15 Mins.) 2. Rennovating an old Iaurn: (s) 12:00 CBC NEWS AND NEWS Dig up bare or weedy patches. re­ full of supplies are rumbl1ng over the 11:00 BBC NEWS (15 Min• .) COMMENTARY (15 Mins.) move all weed roots and work the mountains to China - wonderful 11:15 BIG SISTER (15 Mins.) 12:15 CBC NEWS ROUND-UP soil down into a firm seed bed. Com· news, because the Burma Road has 11:30 CBK PROGRAM NEWS (Rebr.) (15 Mins.) pact the soil until level with sur· been closed ever since the Japanese (5 Mins.) rounding lawn. (b) Scatter a. thin occupied Burma in 1942. Burma. is a 11:35 MUSICAL PROGRAM TRANS·CANADA coating of good loam mixed with pul­ narrow country running like a wedge Programs 01 the Trans-Canada net­ Recorded. (10 Min• .) verized sheep manure over the whole between India, China and Thailand; 11:45 MUSICAL PROGRAM work oOered to Prairie Region fl.et· works stations, carried lawn. (c) Seed the new spots at rate separated from the three neighbour­ Recorded. (14 Mins.) aT not on CBK) of one pound to 200 square feet. ing countries by high rugged moun­ 11:59 DOMINION OBSERVATORY 11:30 MUSICAL PROGRAM Broadcast seed over balance accord­ tains. The Bay of Bengal forms its OFFICIAL TIME SIGNAL Recorded. (15 MinaJ ing to need. (d) Rake in the seed and Southern boundary. At one time (1 Min.) 12:00 MUSIC FOR MODERNS roll. (e) Water. Burma was part of India, but in 12:00 R.C.M.P. BULLETINS (15 Min.l.) 3. Maktng a new laum: 1937 it became a crown colony with (15 Min•.) 12:45 MUSICAL PROGRAM (a) Soil: If soil is too heavy it its own constitution.... Burma. is 12:15 THE HAPPY GANG Recorded. (15 Mi7t&.) important for three reasons: first, (30 Mins.) packs when wet and bakes when dry. 4:15 MUSICAL PROGRAM If it has a great many aU wells; sec· 12:45 JEAN HINDS (15 Mins.) it's too sandy it won't hold enough Recorded. (15 MinsJ moisture in hot dry weather. The ondly, it grows and exports more 1:00 CBC NEWS (15 Min• .) 4:45 MUSICAL PROGRAM ideal soil consists of a heavy, well rice than any country in the world; 1:15 NEWS IN FRENCH Recorded. (15 Mins.) drained subsoil containing enough thirdly, the Burma Road, which Is (10 Mins.) DOMINION humus to make it porous for good China's back door, begins at a place 1:25 MUSICAL PROGRAM aeration and for root penetration, called Lashio in northern Burma Recorded. (5 Mins.) (Programs 01 the Dominion network and about four inches of rich loam and leads over a high range of moun­ 1:30 CBC FARM BROADCAST offered to Prairie Region network8 or stations, not carried on CBK) for the surface layer. tains to Chungktng, the capital of (30 Mins.) free China. 2:00 WOMAN OF AMERICA 7:00 FRANK MORGAN (b) Preparation: The soil must be (30 Min•.) (15 Mins.) firm and level with no soft pockets 7:30 PAY PARADE (30 Mins.) 2: 15 MA PERKINS (15 Min• .) or depressions. It must be rolled and CBK IN CONTINUOUS-Concluded 8:30 CANADIAN CAVALCADE raked and low spots filled in by re­ 2:30 PEPPER YOUNG'S FAMILY (30 Min•.) Do five-minute commentary by G. V. (15 Mins.) peated operation until the entire sur· 9:00 LIGHT UP AND LISTEN face is firm. It must be firm enough Ferguson on the peace declaration, 2:45 RIGHT TO HAPPINESS (30 Min•.) and a fifteen-minute program by the (15 Mins.) to walk over without making in­ 9:30 THE RUDY VALLEE SHOW dentations. duo pianists Parks and Burdett dur­ 3:00 FEDERAL ELECTION (30 Mins.) 7. (c) Seeding: First loosen a quarter ing the afternoon. On May when BROADCAST-LIBERAL 10:00 CBC NEWS AND COMMENT­ the first news of the signing of peace (15 Mins.) ARY (15 Mins.) of an inch of surface soil by gentle raking. Broadcast seed at the rate of terms at Reims came through, Jean 3:15 CBC NEWS (3 Min• .) 10:30 LINGER A WHILE one pound to 200-250 square feet of Hinds, Prairie Region women's com­ 3:18 MOTHERS' BUSINESS (30 Mins.) mentator, contributed a three-min­ (12 Mins.) surface. Rake in the seed and roll. ute talk the Dominion-wide 3:30 MUSICAL PROGRAM (d) Watering should be done with to round-up of reactions to peace, con­ Recorded. (15 Mins.) __)/(JteJ-~__ a fine spray that won't wash out the 3:45 RECITAL (15 Min•.) ducted by John Fisher from Toronto. THE ALOUETTE QUARTET A portion of Miss Hinds' talk dealt 4:00 MUSICAL PROGRAM program. Koster's numbers this week with the rural reaction. This was Recorded. (15 Mins.) (6 p.m,) are: "Too Late" (Young) and "Dear supplied to the CBC's Prairie Region 4:15 LA CHANSON FRANCAISE In honor of Em~ire Day the Alou­ Little Boy of Mine" (Ball). The or­ Press and Information department Recorded. (15 Mins.) ette Quartet's program of Thursday, gan and piano will play: "At the by S. J. Dornan, veteran editor of the 4:30 FRONT LINE FAMILY May 24, includes representative songs Balalaika." (Stothart); "Body and Alameda Dispatch, of Alameda, Sas­ (15 Mins.) of the British Isles as well as of Soul" (Green); "Blue Skies" (Berw katchewan, and for many years 4: 45 UN HOMME El' SON PllCHll Canada. Their selections will be "Vive lin); "Apple Blossom Time" (Tel­ secretary of the Saskatchewan Divi­ (15 Mins.) les matelots," "Rule Britannia," "Be­ zer) , "I'll Get By" (Ahlert). sion of the Canadian Weekly News­ 5:00 THE WESTERN FIVE lieve Me if All Those Endeartng (15 Mins.> papers Association. Young Charms," "Annie Laurie," SERENADE IN RHYTHM The Talks Department at CBC 5:15 PIANO RAMBLINGS "Drink to Me only With Thine Eyes," (11:45 p.m.) Winnipeg also arranged two special (15 Mins.> and "Vive la Canadienne." Another lively jive session gets V-E Day features for BBC, one a 5:30 MUSICAL PROGRAM Recorded. (15 Mins.) under way tonight as Ray Norris and short actuality street scene broadcast LINGER AWHILE (10:30 p.m.) the Serenade In Rhythm boys come interviewing passers-by at the corner 5:45 BBC NEWS AND (Dominion) COMMENTARY (15 Mins.) to the microphone to offer "Embrace­ of Portage Avenue and Main Street, Winnipeg, and the other a com­ 8:00 ALOUE'ITE QUARTET Agnes Forsythe, Hammond organ­ able You," and "Between Meals." (30 Mins.) ist, and Oy Cairns, pianist, with Wally Eleanor sings "Cherry," and "Just a mentary by Miss Hinds similar to 6:30 CBC NEWS (10 Min,.) Koster as vocalist, are heard in tWs Little on the Lonely Side." her CBC talk. Prairie Region CBC PROGRAM SCHEDULE Page 7

Pinfeather Pete Welcomes Spring I~tl :~~~~::Yl~t::OT~~:~:in1~~~ed~t J~IIJ The weather brought some com­ times given one __Alt_tI_i/_g_tI1_-JIJ ments to the Riverhurst COurier from Pinfeather Pete, anp. here's part STATION CBK, WATROUS 6:45 CBC NEWS ROUND-UP H.M. the King of It: 8:00 CBC NEWS (5 Mins.) (1S MinI.) The reception of the address by March, she got her tail over her 8:05 BREAKFAST CLUB 7:00 TO B~ ANNOUNCED His Majesty the King on Tuesday back and kicked out the snow and (30 Mm•.) (40 Mins.) 7:30 MUSICAL MAILBOX was wonderful. We. heard every was warmin' up so good I caught up 8:45 MUSIC WHILE YOU WORK (30 Mins-> word, and to a famUy like ours, whose my outfit and scraped the dirt offen Recorded. (15 MfnsJ 8:00 WALTZ TIME (30 Mim.) losses have been heavy. it was deeply them and cleaned my wheat and got 9:00 CBC NEWS (15 Mlns.l 8:30 CBR CONCERT ORCHESTRA consoling and reassuring. The radio the drill ready. Then that night she 9:15 MUSICAL PROGRAM (30 Mins.) is a great miracle. To us, living here broke her oft hind leg and got chills Recorded. (15 MinsJ 9:00 CBC NATIONAL NEWS on the prairies, it brought comfort and newmonia and went whistlin' 9:30 ETHELWYN HOBBES (15 Min"..) and happiness on this day of victory. round the corners spittin' snowballs (5 lUins.) 9:15 HERE'S YOUR HEALTH -Mrs. S.T.S., Regina, Sa8k. and bUzzards. She had nine relapses 9:35 PIANO INTERLUDE (15 Min$.) in April and don't look good. yet. Recorded. (10 Mins.) 9:30 FEDERAL ELECTION •• • Maybe I'll get gain' by June 15th if 9:45 MORNING DEVOTIONS BROADCAST-PROGRESS­ Recitals she gets over it. I'm wearin' two (15 Min•.) IVE-CONSERVATIVE The afternoon recitals on the CBC horseblankets over my overcoat and 10:00 ROAD OF LIFE (15 Mln,.l (30 Min• .) the gophers stole some of my wheat 10:15 MASTER MUSICIANS 10:00 SOLILOQUY (30 Min•.) give me a great deal of pleasure, especially when the artists are young, and dug in for the winter. I laid in Recorded. (15 Mins.) 10:30 VANCOUVER PLAYHOUSE four ton of coal for next winter and new ones. For some weeks I have 10:30 SOLDIER'S WIFE (15 Min• .l (30 MinI.) it's all gone. The horses stick out been intending to write to you about 10:45 LUCY LINTON'S STORIES 11:00 BBC NEWS REEL (15 Min• .) their heads in the mornin' and then one in particular; this was a slxteen­ FROM LIFE (15 Mins.) 11:15 THE PEOPLE ASK (15 Min•.) go back to bed, and my cat is growin' year-old Winnipeg girl whose voice 11 :00 BBC NEWS (15 Mins.l 11:30 DANCE ORCHESTRA a new crop of fur. It shore is makin' seemed to me to possess unusual 11: 15 BIG SISTER (15 !fins.) (15 Mins.) an awful mess of our early spring.­ beauty and promise. Please convey to 11:30 CBK PROGRAM NEWS 11:45 SONGS IN THE NIGHT R. D. Colquette, on CBC, May 6. (5 Mlns.) (15 Mins.) Corinne Kirby my thanks for a really 11:35 MUSICAL PROGRAM 12:00 CBC NEWS AND NEWS delightful fifteen minutes. I hope the British View Mill•.) CBC will arrange a return engage­ Recorded. (10 Mins.) COMMENTARY (15 I I ment for her soon.-M.A.F., Saska­ think was right in saying that 11:45 MUSICAL PROGRAM 12:15 CBC NEWS ROUND-UP in 1941 there were only 35 Bren guns Recorded. (14 Mins.) toon. (Rebr.) (15 Min• .) left in Australia. No, as you were, 11:59 DOMINION OBSERVATORY • • OFFICIAL TIME SIGNAL TRANS-CANADA there were 36-0ne was out of order. (1 Mill.) (Programs of the Trans-Canada net­ V-E Day Everything else had been sent to 12:00 R.C.M.P. BULLETINS work offered to Prairie Region net~ Britain or the Middle East. Then (15 Min>.) works or stations, not carried on I have always liked my radio, but came the Japanese attack and the 12:15 THE HAPPY GANG CSK) never has it been such a consolation, 1055 of Singapore. When Australia (30 Mins.) 11:30 MUSICAL PROGRAM and such an inspiration to me as on and New Zealand's greatest hour 12:45 CLAIRE WALLACE Recorded. <15 Mins.) V-E Day. I stayed with it nearly all came, we in this country could not (15 Mins.) 12:00 MUSICAL PROGRAM day. So many great words, so much do much to help. But I have felt all 1 :00 CBC NEWS (15 Min• .) Recorded. (15 Mins.> noble and inspiring music! This is along that every blow we from the 1:15 NEWS IN FRENCH 4:15 MUSICAL PROGRAM the sort of radio we should have British Isles strike at the J ap is (10 Mins.) Recorded. (15 Mins.) every day-serious, dignified, truth­ helping to drive the enemy from the 1:25 MUSICAL INTERLUDE 4:45 MUSICAL PROGRAM ful, with touches of humour and gates of Australia. and New Zealand, Recorded. (5 M~ns.) Recorded. (15 Mins.) gaiety now and then-spices, as they and thus, in some small measure, is 1:30 CBC FARM BROADCAST 11:15 WORLD AFFAIRS (15 Min,.> should be, not the whole menu! I helping to repay their effort for us. (30 Mins.) DOMINION turned my set off just at dark, after Some people forget to think from a 2:00 WOMAN OF AMERICA (Programs 01 the Dominicm network hearing Mr. Brockington, whose talk BIitish Commonwealth point of view, (15 Mins.) offered to Prairie Regton networks OT was like a benediction spoken at the and do not realize that a threat to 2:15 MA PERKINS (15 Mins.) stations, not carried on CBE) end of a great ceremony. Congratula­ any part of it is a threat to the whole, 2:30 PEPPER YOUNG'S FAMILY tions to the CBC! May it keep up o~ (15 Mins.) 7:00 ALDRICH FAMILY and that it is just as essential to 2:45 RIGHT TO HAPPINESS (30 Mins.) this fine work, and relegate frivolity tain security in the Pacific as it is (15 Mins.) 7:30 THIN MAN (25 Mins.) to its proper, minor role!-R.R.D., in Europe.-Brigadier James Michael 3:00 FEDERAL ELECTION 7:55 SCRAPBOOK OF STORIES Winnipeg, Man. Calvert, D.S.D., on BBC. BROADCAST--G.C.F. (5 Mins.) (15 Mins.) 8:30 MART KENNEY'S in the Dark," is the title and the Before Me" and "If I Had My Way" 3:15 CBC NEWS (3 Mills.) ORCHESTRA (30 Min• .) debating point tossed. back and forth (Klene-Kendis). Harold Green and 3: 18 NEEDLE POINTERS 9:00 CHAMPIONSHIP FIGHT between Shorty, the doubting Cana­ orchestra will play "Lilacs In The (12 Min• .> (60 Mins.) dian and his pal, Lorne Green, on the Rain"; "Any Place Is Heaven"; "Was 3:30 MUSICAL PROGRAM 10:00 CBC NEWS AND COMMENT­ next broadcast of Here's Your Health. It Love?"; "Valse Moderne" (Lodge) ; Recorded. (15 Mins.) ARY (15 Mins.) Tonight's broadcast will be the "La Pulgo" (tango); "Russian Slum­ 3 :45 RECITAL (15 Mins.) ninth in a series in which Shorty ber SOng" (Gretchaninoff); "Coque­ 4:00 MUSICAL PROGRAM and his friend thrash out the prob· try" (Norman Leigh) and "Mademoi­ Recorded. (15 Mins.) lerns of the individual's health and selle Kiki" (Rawlinson). Now and 4:15 LA FIANCEE DU COM­ his responsibility to others in the then, in his popular program, Harold MANDO (15 Mins.) RECITAL (3:4S p.m.) community. Tommy Tweed, charac­ Green introdUces semi-classicaJ. ar­ 4:30 FRONT LINE FAMILY Naomi Civkin, second yea.r art stu­ ter actor and radio playwright, is the rangements, such as the Gretchanin­ (15 Mins.) dent at the University of Manitoba, author of the series, working in col­ off number tonight. He has been 4:45 UN HOMME ET SON PECHE Winnipeg, is today's piano recitalist. laboration with Dr. Frieda Fraser, astonished at the response from his (15 Mins.) She will play two Chopin numbers, technical advisor for the broadcasts. audience. 5:00 DON MESSER AND HIS Ballade in G. Minor and Nocturne In each episode, one aspect of pub­ !fin• ISLANDERS (15 .> in F Sharp, Op. 15, No.2. lic health Is discussed in the humor­ SONGS IN THE NIGHT (11:46 p.m.) 0:15 PRAffiIE COMMENT ous terms of everyday life, this week's Clement Q. Williams, baritone, has (15 Min•.) PRAIRIE COMMENT (5:15 p.m.) being an examination of prevention chosen melodies from the pen of Gil­ 5:30 MUSICAL PROGRAM Phyllis Taylor is today's speaker, by immunization. bert and Sullivan, including "My Boy Recorded. (15 Mins.) and her subject is "Indian Spring." You May Take It From Me," from 5:45 BBC NEWS AND She will describe some curious Indian Ruddigore; "I Have a Song to Sing SOLILOQUY (10 p.m,) COMMENTARY (15 Mins.) customs in connection withl the 0' ", from the Yeoman of the Guard; 6:00 THE OLD SONGS (15 Mins.> changing season, observed. during her Mary Wells, Jean Fredericks and "In Enterprise of Martial Kind," and 6:15 ADVENTURE STORIES stay on a northern reservation. Olivia Dean, the MelodY Maids of "I Am a Courtier Grave and Serious," (15 Mins.) this dreamy Friday night program, from The Gondoliers. Mr. WUliams 6:30 CBC NEWS (10 Min• .) HERE'S YOUR HEALTH (9:15 p.m.) will be heard this week in the Dietz­ will be accompanied. a-t th~ piarno by 6:40 NEWS IN FRENCH (5 Min• .) "A Shot in the Arm is Worth Two Schwartz melody, "I See Your Face Enid Conley. Page 8 CBC PROGRAM SCHEDULE Prairie Region

CORRECTIONS QUESTIONS 1111__S_A_TU_RD_A_y,_M_a_y 2_6_th,_19..----.4_5--.J1111 For Prairie Region Program Sched· and ANSWERS ule dated May 13, 1945. .All times given are Central Daylight; lOT Mountain Time deduct one hour. SUNDAY, MAY 13 New Talent 5:00-6:00 p.m. (DOM.) STATION CBK, WATROUS TRANS-CANADA Kill: Radio Hall of Fame. 8:00 CBC NEWS (5 Mins.l (Programs 0/ the Trans·Canada net­ What does the CBC do to develop Schedule: Philco Summer Hour. 8:05 MUSICAL PROGRAM work Offered to Prairie Region net­ new talent? Is that not a proper res­ WEEKLY THEREAFTER works stations, not carried on Recorded. (25 Mins.) or ponsibility of the CBC?-J.B.M., Re­ MONDAY, MAY 14 CBK) gina, Sask. 8:30 ENCORES (30 Mins.) 9:30-10:00 p.m.

9:30 LEICESTER SQUARE TO aeroplane has been put in the past: CKRM, REGINA 00 880 BROADWAY (30 Min•.) to drop bombs that burn and destroy Ba//led. Ambition. I once thought I CHA8. MOOSE JAW 800 10:00 SERVICE CENTRE and mutilate, frequently quite de­ would like to be a reporter on a CFQC, SASteATOON 600 ORC\IESTRA (30 Mlns.) fenceless people. If the superman newspaper, but I changed my mind OK81. PRINCE ALBERT 900 10:30 STRING PROGRAM CFCN, CALGARY 1010 made the aeroplane, the ape in man when I learned that I would have (30 Mins.) has got hold of it. It seems to me CFRN, EDMONTON 1260 to go up to strange people and ask 11:00 PRODUCERS' WORKSHOP that this process isn' going to stop (30 Mlns.l OTHER STATIONS them questions. A very little en- CFAR, FLiN FLON 1230 11:30 COUPABLE OU NON -that there is no Umlt to the in­ CKUA, EDMONTON _ .. h ••• 680 (30 Mim.) crease of our powers. ... Isn't it couragement and training might CJCJ, CALGARY 1230 12:00 CBC NEWS (15 Mlns.) fairly obvious that we shall do our-I have helped me over that hurdle---I 12:15 DANCE ORCHESTRA selves in altogether?-e. E. M. Joad, don't know. - Aileen Garland, on OFOP. GRANDE PRAIRIE 1360 CKCK, REGINA 820 (15 Min•.) on BBC. CBC, April 19. This file including all text and images are from scans of a private personal collection and have been scanned for archival and research purposes. This file may be freely distributed. but not sold on ebay or on any commercial sites. catalogs. booths or kiosks. either as reprints or by electronic methods. This file may be downloaded without charge from the Radio Researchers Group website at http://www.otrr.org/

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