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Old Time Radio

In these days when so much of our entertainment is fast action, computer graphics, 3-D and High Definition its a surprise to stumble onto something akin to old time radio. It happened when I was listening to an audio book. These are usually narrations by one reader who performs all the various character parts of the story in the book. Some narrators are very good and some are a little flat. However, when I started to listen to The New Adventures of Mickey Spillanes Mike Hammer by Mickey Spillane and Max Allan Collins I was very surprised. Each character was performed by a separate narrator. All the background sound effects were there: footsteps, doors creaking closed, punches being thrown and even the sound of different calibre guns being fired. Oh my gosh, it was just like an old time radio program. I couldnt pry myself away from listening to it. It was fun. The creativity used in recording those radio programs was beyond compare. They grabbed your imagination and kept you enthralled. Friends have told me that as young boys they found The Shadow almost too suspenseful and thrilling to listen to. I Love Lucy, Fibber McGee and Molly, The Lone Ranger, The Green Hornet, Mary Worth, The Millionaire, Groucho Marx, Burns and Allen and dozens more were the staple entertainment for many families; westerns, mysteries, comedies, thrillers and, of course, hockey. They brought everyone together. All the colour was in your mind, all the action and all the nuances. In one broadcast you knew the desperado was hiding behind the rocks in the gulch. You almost had to yell to the hero to save himself. Then, with the next program, you wept when your heroine lost her love and had to go on and be strong no matter what. Were we more innocent then or perhaps more genuine? We were certainly more imaginative. This isnt Avatar, this is good creative fun listening that you can enjoy while you work in the garage or bake or relax for a half an hour some afternoon. Its surprising to feel your mind work again. Our entertainment now asks so little of us and we gladly accept so much as already wholly designed. We soak it up and we contribute nothing. Our pleasure is to never think. Now you have the chance again and youll enjoy it. I was delighted to see that many compilations of old radio programs are available through the Chinook Library System. Theyre right there waiting to transport you back to those great times and enjoyable evenings. Dont miss the chance to try these out. Just search under Old Time Radio and youll find them as in a dusty trunk in the attic. You might even have the experience of smelling bread baking while you listen to them. Theyll take you home again. Science says that all broadcast waves go on off into space and travel endlessly outward. Today the earliest Lucille Ball radio program hasnt even reached the first star from us. When it gets there, those little space guys are really going to be in for a treat. JK

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Memories wanted of Harold S. "Corky" Jones For those who knew Corky, or stories of him, please drop by the Town Historical Museum to write down your memories. Information gathered will be used at a later date for a biography of him and his work around southwest Saskatchewan. For more information on the project please contact Tim Tokaryk at 295 - 4701 in the daytime, or 295 - 3566 in the evening. Each piece must be signed and dated to complete the documentation.

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The Shadow is a collection of serialized dramas, originally in pulp magazines, then on 1930s radio and then in a wide variety of media, that follow the exploits of the title character, a crime-fighting vigilante in the pulps, which carried over to the airwaves as a "wealthy, young man about town" with psychic powers. One of the most famous pulp heroes of the 20th century, The Shadow has been featured in comic books, comic strips, television, video games, and at least five motion pictures. The radio drama is wellremembered for those episodes voiced by Orson Welles. Introduced as a mysterious radio narrator by David Chrisman, William Sweets, and Harry Engman Charlot for Street and Smith Publications, The Shadow was fully developed and transformed into a pop culture icon by pulp writer Walter B. Gibson. The Shadow debuted on July 31, 1930, as the mysterious narrator of the Street and Smith radio program Detective Story Hour. After gaining popularity among the show's listeners, the narrator became the star of The Shadow Magazine on April 1, 1931, a pulp series created and primarily written by the prolific Gibson. Over the years, the character evolved. On September 26, 1937, The Shadow radio drama officially premiered with the story "The Deathhouse Rescue", in which the character had "the power to cloud men's minds so they cannot see him." This was a contrivance for the radio; in the magazine stories, The Shadow did not have the ability to become literally invisible.

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Even after decades, the unmistakable introduction from The Shadow radio program, long-intoned by actor Frank Readick Jr., has earned a place in the American idiom: "Who knows what evil lurks in the hearts of men? The Shadow knows!" These words were accompanied by an ominous laugh and a musical theme, Camille Saint-Sans' Le Rouet d'Omphale ("Omphale's Spinning Wheel", composed in 1872). At the end of each episode, The Shadow reminded listeners, "The weed of crime bears bitter fruit. Crime does not pay.... The Shadow knows!" Wikipedia

One of the things I learned the hard way is that it doesnt pay to get discouraged. Keeping busy and making optimism a way of life can restore your faith in yourself. Lucille Ball

Hank
It was on a hot afternoon in late August when my friend, Joe Dundas and I arrived in Eastend. We booked in for the night at the historic Cypress Hotel and as I shouldered my bag upstairs to room #3, I couldnt help but notice the room at the end of the hall. Above the number 5 and within a silver-bordered rectangle were the words, Hanks Room. We spent the rest of the afternoon enjoying the hospitality of the bar and chatting with locals. Later we sat on the deck of the golf clubhouse soaking in the incredible hot stillness of a dying day. The night air was heavy but I had left the air conditioner on and fell asleep easily. Sometime after midnight I was awakened by the street laughter of some guys who had likely just shut the bar down. As I lay there in the dark, my mind began a fanciful whirl. Who had slept in this room over the years? What stories could these walls tell? The plot for the unwritten great western Canadian novel could be stored in the lost memories of the Cypress Hotel. Then Hank entered my thoughts. Who was he? How often did he come? From where? Fancy took over, and Hank morphed into a mystery man in the great Western Canadian novel. The next morning after breakfast at Jacks Caf, I said goodbye to Room #3, and Hank. As we entered the rolling beauty of the Cypress Hills, I realized I hadnt asked the hotel people about Hank. Maybe it was better that way. The hero of the great western Canadian novel should be whom we want him to be. Max Foran

1871 Survey of Security in the Saskatchewan Part 2 by Denis Wall

In the Saskatchewan District, peace and security were, according to William Butlers report of 1871, uncertain at best. Think of the Cypress Hills Massacre a couple of years later as just one small example. Butler gives a view of Hudsons Bay Company (HBC) officials as living in perpetual insecurity. The fur trade is declining and the HBC is operating at a loss. Servants are insubordinate. The effects on trade and sovereignty, Butler believes, could be quite serious. If the Company pulls out, US traders would have unfettered access all the way to Lesser Slave Lake. In fact, two Americans, Culverston and Healy, had firmly established a whiskey and arms trade, supplied from Fort Benton, 60 miles inside British territory at the time Butler was there. His report details numerous other tensions. Free-men (Metis traders) do not want to settle down. The Blackfoot whose knowledge is read from the great book which Day, Night and the Desert unfolds to them are not willing to submit to British notions of Justice and Kindness. Besides, he notes, at the northern trading forts (Edmonton, and so on) the Blackfoot are generally assaulted by the Crees and savagely murdered,. As a result, the Blackfoot do most of their trade with Americans working from the Missouri River. And, of course, the US policy of extermination is no help. The US Army massacred 170 Peagin just south of the boundary a few months prior to Butlers tour. Starvation too is wide spread: (T)he vast prairies which flank the Southern and Western spurs of the Touch -wood Hills ... are still white with the bones of the migratory herds (of bison), which, until lately, roamed over their surface. Add to these reasons for uncertainty the poisoning of wolves and foxes: This most pernicious practice has had the effect of greatly embittering the Indians against the settler, for not only have large numbers of animals been uselessly destroyed, inasmuch as one half of the animals thus killed have been lost to the trapper, but also the poison is communicated to the Indian dogs and thus a very important mode of winter transport is lost to the red man. Settlers are in clear conflict of purpose with the Indians. Recent gold discoveries in most rivers would only increase their numbers and the potential for an attempted extermination of Indians. Still another problem is small pox: It is difficult to imagine a state of pestilence more terrible than that which kept pace with these moving parties of Crees during the summer months of 1870. St. Albert was one of the most adversely affected areas, partially because of compromised vaccines from Fort Benton. On the other hand, places like Fort Pitt had been saved from epidemics because of vaccinations supplied by missions. To secure British/Canadian authority, Butler recommends first a Crown-operated justice apparatus led by a locally-residing civil magistrate or commissioner (as in India and Ireland, he says), assisted by already appointed HBC civil magistrates and others to be appointed from amongst the most influential and respected persons of the French and English half-breed population. Butlers second recommendation is for a military force of 100 to 150, one third mounted, who after their 2 to 3-year contracts expire should become military settlers, receiving grants of land, but still remaining as a reserve force should their services be required. And finally he recommends government stations at Edmonton and Carleton, only after the extinguishment of Indian Title (which still today can be ceded only to the Crown) from Edmonton to Victoria Landing (about 80 miles). That kind of treaty process is still underway today. You will recognize Nunavut which was the result of a modern-day treaty in 1999. With the likely increase in security following the implementation of his recommendations, Butler feels one of the fairest regions of the Earth would be open to peaceful settlement. (download a free .pdf of the Butler report from www.ualberta.ca/~walld/dwrgpress1.html)

Hank Revealed
Hank worked for Delta Rock and was a long-time patron of the Cypress Hotel. When he retired last year the Hotel provided a commemorative plaque in his honour. Thats truly customer appreciation. JK

Waxwings
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Outside of a dog, a book is mans best friend. Inside a dog its too dark to read. Groucho Marx

When I was born I was so surprised that I didnt talk for a year and a half. Gracie Allen

Movie Synopsis:

Book Review:

The Conspirator
In the wake of Abraham Lincoln's assassination, seven men and one woman are arrested and charged with conspiring to kill the President, Vice President, and Secretary of State. The lone woman charged, Mary Surratt owns a boarding house where John Wilkes Booth and others met and planned the simultaneous attacks. Against the ominous back-drop of post-Civil War Washington, newlyminted lawyer, Frederick Aiken, a 28year-old Union war-hero, reluctantly agrees to defend Surratt before a military tribunal. Aiken realizes his client may be innocent and that she is being used as bait and hostage in order to capture the only conspirator to have escaped a massive manhunt, her own son, John. As the nation turns against her, Surratt is forced to rely on Aiken to uncover the truth and save her life. (rottentomatoes.com)

New Bestsellers at The Eastend Library Angels Flight Michael Connelly The Burning Wire Jeffrey Deaver An Echo in the Bone Diana Gabaldon Ice Cold Tess Gerritsen Chasing the Night Iris Johansen The Search Nora Roberts Storm Prey John Sandford Wrecked Carole Higgins Clark The Land of Painted Caves Jean Auel The Bourne Objective Eric Van Lustbader

Let the Great World Spin By Colum McCann Let the Great World Spin is a novel about New York City. The book received the 2009 National Book Award for fiction, and the 2011 International IMPAC Dublin Literary Award, one of the most lucrative prizes in the world. The plot of the book revolves around two central events. The first, laid out clearly in the book's opening pages, is the sensational real-life feat of the Twin Towers tightrope walk of Philippe Petit 110 stories up, performed in 1974. This lays the groundwork for the author's description of the human ability to find meaning, even in the greatest of tragedies, for which the Twin Towers serve as a sort of an allegory. The second central event, which is only revealed halfway through the book, is the fictional courtroom trial of a New York City prostitute. This serves as a sort of point of balance, bringing the book back down to its more earthly, and therefore more real basic story lines. In the novel McCann employs the unusual literary technique of designating multiple protagonists within the same book. In fact, no fewer than 11 different protagonists are introduced throughout the course of the book, each in their own dedicated chapters. Additionally, the various protagonists are sometimes cast in roles which are naturally in conflict or tension with one another: for example, first a prostitute, and then the judge who must pass sentence upon her. In this particular case, first an earlier chapter of the book presents the courtroom story through the eyes of the prostitute, later in the book the same story is retold through the eyes of the judge. This is a beautifully written book of vignettes around the lives of people who are tenuously connected. It makes very satisfying reading for those of us who hunger for good literature. Many thanks for this donation to our library.
JK (and extracts from Wikipedia)

Dont Miss These Great Recent Donations Sentenced to Death Lorna Barrett A Crafty Killing Lorna Barrett Wilful Behaviour Donna Leon Borrowed Time Robert Goddard The Lion Nelson DeMille Agent X Noah Boyd Days without Number Robert Goddard Let the Great World Spin Colum McCann

Once in his life every man is entitled to fall madly in love with a gorgeous redhead. Lucille Ball

Television is the triumph of machine over people. Fred Allen

Museum Musings
Memories of Life in the Corry Log House on the Ranch
Part Two by Don Pearson

I have many childhood memories of life in the log house. There were church services in the summer. In the fall, hams were hanging from the beams in the living room to cure. My mother canned meat, chicken, fruit and vegetables which were stored in a cellar under the living room. In the winter, the living room became a bedroom so there were not as many rooms to heat. I remember electrical power coming in the early 1950s which eliminated coal oil lamps and kerosene lamps. It certainly made work easier for my mother. She always said would never complain about the power bill when she considered all the work it did for her. In the 1940s there were at least 5 men for meals each day breakfast at 6 a.m., dinner at 12 noon and supper at 6 p.m. The men worked at the Whitemud Pit and lived in the bunk house. There was often a hired girl or a married couple to help out. In approximately 1940, my mother, sisters, brothers and I moved to town to go to school as there were no school buses at that time. During the late 40s and 50s, my Dad usually had a married couple at the farm so that he could go back and forth. I moved back to the farm, permanently after attending the School of Agriculture in 1955, and lived in the log house until the new house was built in 1961. If a log house is not lived in, it deteriorates rapidly and this is what happened. The opportunity arose to donate it to the Eastend Historical Museum, and it was moved in 1987 so it could be preserved. All seven rooms could not be moved and the beautiful kitchen cupboards are now gone. In spite of this, the log cabin has been well restored and is certainly a tourist attraction for the Historical Museum and the Town of Eastend!

Happiness. A good cigar, a good meal, a good cigar and a good woman - or a bad woman.; it depends on how much happiness you can handle. George Burns