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HomeMy WebLinkAboutThe Seaforth News, 1939-03-23, Page 3THURSDAY, MARCH 23, 1939 THE SEAFORTH NEWS Highlights of the Week Sunday, Mar. 26bh---6.30 to.2 ,p.m. Salute of the iNations, frpm Poland; 3. •ta 5 p.m. Phibharndniic-Symphony 'Orchestra, New York; .5.30 to 6 pm. Jan 'Stneterlin, pianist, from BBC, London, Monddy, Mar. 217th -6.30 to 7 p.m. Male Choral Club, froth Saint John; 8 to 18.30 p.m. C'Est Paris, Variety, from Montreal, Tuesday, Mar. 28th -7.30 'to 7,45 p. in, Eleanor Warren, 'cellist, from'O!t- tawa; 7.45' to 8 p.m. Motion ,Picture Interview, from Toronto; 9 to 9.30 P. m. Appointment with !Agostini, Mont- real; 9.30 to 10.130 ,p:na. Toronto Sym- phony Orchestra, Toronto. Wednesday, Mar. 20th -48.30 to 9 p:nt. Canadian Trio +(,of London) .from Halifax; 9.30 to '10 p.m, 'Music by Faith, from CBC Playhouse, Tor- onto; 110 to 110.30 p.m. Leo Pol Morin, concert pianist, Montreal. Thursday, Mar. 30th -16,30 to 7 p• m. Metropolitan • Strings, from Mont- real; 7.30 to 7:415 p,ni. Eleanor War- ren, 'cellist, from Ot.tawa;'8 to 9 p.m. The Montreal !Orchestra, •from Mon- treal. Friday, Mar. 31st -4.415 to :5 p.m. Countryside of the Queen, talk, Mon- treal; 6.30 to 7 p.m. The Little Re- view, variety, from Montreal; 7,30 to 8 pan. Front a Rose Garden, concert from Halifax, Saturday, April llst-1.30 to 2 p.m. Oxford -Cambridge Boat Race, from BBC; 2.30 oto 4 p.m. In Town To- night and Music Hall, from BBC. Young English 'Cellist In Two !Recitals Mies Eleanor Warren, young Eng- lish 'cellist of wide acclaim, who is in Canada to arrange her North Ameri- can concert tour for next season, will be .heard over CBC's mid -east and central networks in two special recit- als, Tuesday, March 28 and Thurs- day, March 30, on both occasions from 7.130 to 7,415 p.m. These recitals' will originate in CBC's Ottawa studios: Miss Warren 'began the study of the 'cello at the age of five.. Two years tater she won first prize at a London music festival. She stud- ied in London with Prof, Herbert+ Waleno, whose distinguished pupils include John B'arbirobh, conductor of the New York Philharmonic -Symph- ony Orchestra and Boris IIam'bourg, of the Hart House String Quartet, In Paris Miss Warren studied with ha- gelaire. She has played twice for .the world-famous master ,of the 'cello, 'P•iatigorslcy, and on various occasions she has appeared as soloist with noted symphony :orchestras, in Great Britain, Holland and 'Belgiu n, 11 -Year -Old Pianist Guest With Toronto Symphony 'Vald'ine Conde, ,1111 -year-old concert pianist of Winnipeg, will lie the as- sisting artist with the Toronto, Synr phony Orchestra, conducted by Sir Ernest ivfacMillan, when the weekly oancert is heard over CBC's nation- wide network on Tuesday, Mar. 28th, 9.30 to 10.30 p.m. from Massey Hall in :Toronto. The young artist, who is studying at the Juilliard Foundation, New York, will be heard with the orchestra in the Concerto No. 1 in E flat by Franz Liszt, Valdine Conde on this date will play a oomposition by Frati'k Liszt, who has been called the world's greatest pianist. Liszt was himself the first performer of this concerto, at Weimar, in February, 181515. The young Winnipeg pianist made her first New York appearance last fall, with.' the New York Civic Orchestra. Arthur Hartmann, violinist, coo poser, pedagogue and friend and col- laborator of the French oomp'oser, Claude Debussy, win come to Tor- onto frosty New York for a special anniversary programme to be pre- sented over CBC's nation-wide net- work Sunday, March 26th, '1 to 1.30 p.m. The programme is "Musically speaking," heard weekly at this time, and Harry Adaskin, violinist and commentator, has designed it this week tq commemorate the 21'st anni- versary of the death of Debussy. Saturday, April :let, '1130 to 2 p.m., Oxford -Cambridge Boat Race, from BBC via Ottawa to CBC national network. John Snagge, of the B'BC's outside 'broadcasts department, for the eighth year in succession will de- scribe the meeting, on the Thames. of Oxford and Cambridge. He will (Continued on Page 7) PAGE THREE' NEW CBC RADIO STATIONS t. uyJ -in -P This drawing gives an architect's view of the tower and transmitter building of C13C's new 50,000 -watt station at Sackville, N. B. It will be officially opened early in April, and will serve the ivlaritime prov- inces under the call -letters of CBA. CBE, Watrous, Sask., will be 'ready in June. The completion of the Canadian Broadcasting Corporation's new radio stations, CBA, at Sackville, NB, and CBE, at Watrous, Sask., will mark the fulfillment ,of CBC's second installment of national high-power coverage. The new plants, which will make a total of four erected by CBC during the last two years, will take care of a long -needed service in the Maritime and Prairie provinces The Proposed Increase of 33',4% in 1LINE AXATII N IT IS proposed by the Government of the Province of Ontario to increase the tax on gasoline from six cents to eight cents per gallon. This increase, if made effective, means that the average motorist, driving 10,000 miles in a year and getting 18 miles to the gallon out of his car will pay over $10 ad- ditional to the gasoline tax of $33.33 which he is now paying. Figure it out for yourself. From six cents to eight cents a gallon means this : Tuxes Now Proposed Proposed Gas Tax (excluding Taxes ]Increase per Week license) After Apr. 1, 1939 33345% per Car 10,000 .miles* per year $33.33 $44.44 $11.11 $ .85 15,000 miles* per year 49.98 - 66.66 16.66' 1.28 20,000 miles* per year - 66.66 88.88 22.22 1.70 * (18 miles per gallon) The average car owner is not a rich man. He does not drive a new car. Out of 582,212 passenger ear registrations it't Ontario in 1938 but 48,561 were new cars. Yet the automobile owner is the most heavily taxed man in the community. In 1936 he was already contributing 30% of the provincial revenue. Here are the figures for 1936 and 1937, the latest official figures from 'the Government. 1936 1937 1938 The Provincial Revenue was $90,321,896 11199,838,595 The Provincial Taxation on. gasolinet16,049,857 17,644,164 *$18,318,171 * This figure is based upon the percentage increase in gasoline consumption, which percentage figure was obtained from government sources. t Coupled with license fees in 1936, this TAX represents 30% of the Provincial Revenue. Since the motorist already bears 30% of the taxation burden of the Province, it is manifestly unfair to increase the burden. Provincial Revenue from the taxation of Motor Vehicles, Ontario, 1936: - Paid by the public in Gasoline Taxation $16,049,857 Paid by the public in Licenses, etc... ...... 11,144,956 $27,194,813 Spent by the Government in Highway Construction and Maintenances (All Provincial Expenditures) $ 9,419,509 Interest and Sinking Fund 13,630,543 $23,050,052 Diverted - $ 4,144,761 In 1936 money collected for highway maintenance was being diverted from this purpose to the extent of $&000.000. There is not available from official Government sources Expenditure on Roads, Interest and Sinking Fund charges, etc. subsequent to 1936. , It now proposed to secure an additional $6,000,000 from the motorists of the Province through an increase in the gasoline tax from 'six to eight cents per gallon. While the motorist, as a citizen, has been willing to assist the Government in problems of administration, a liinit must be set to the burden unposed upon him. If you, as a car owner, are content. to assume the added burden represented by a 2 -cent increase in the gasoline tax, there is nothing you need do. Your silence will be interpreted as consent. If you are not content, and wish 'to -place yourself on record to, that effect in the only quarter where your objection will carry weight, call at your regular service station, whether it be a B -A station or any other, and ask for a card which has been distributed for your convenience. , Just sign it, fill in your .address, and leave it with the station attendant. Issued as a service to the Motorists of Ontario by the British American Oil. Company Limited where'broadcasting has been confined to small stations in the most populat- ed centres. The Sackville and Wat- rous transmitters ,will enable many listeners in rural and :urban districts of the Maritimes and the Prairies to hear the Corporation's full broadcast- ing .schedule for the first time. The construction of 'both of these transnritters is progressing favorably, according to a statement issued by G. W. Olive, Chief Engineer of the CBC. The Sackville station is now ready for "on the air" testing, states Mr. Olive, and it is expected that the Watrous .transmitter will be suff- iciently advanced to permit testing about the end of May. Location of CBA is Near Ft. Beausejour CBC's new Maritime station CBA, is located on a 50 -acre site situated about two miles east of Sackville; N. B., along Highway No. 2, close to the border between Nova•Scotia and New 'Brunswick. Fort Beausejttur, in the 16th. century the Government seat of Acadia, can be seen from the transmitter .building, some three miles away. This site was selected only af- ter extensive field -strength surveys which included the setting up on the property of a test broadcasting trans- mitter complete with a vertical radiator, CBA Will Operate on 1030 Kilocycles CBA will radiate its ,programmes with a carrier -power of 50,000 watts on 1030 kilocycles, from a -168-moot insulated and vertical steel radiator. The radiators for bath CBA and CBE were fabricated by the Canad- ian Bridge Company's Wal'kerville plant and are made of Canadian steel, galranized -with spelter from 'Grail, B. C, The design of these radi- ators, the first of this type in the Do- minion, patented by the manufac- fnrers, is uitigne. Guyed at two eleva- tions by - means of insulated steel cable, the towers are of the triangu- lar type, painted and lighted- to meet the day and night requirements of the :lir Hazard Regulations of the De- partment of 'Transport. A 42 -inch in- sulator is located at the base of each radiator. The radiators themselves are set in esuncrete piers sank seven Feet into the ground, Transmitter Building Is Well Equipped Located some 500 feet from CBA's vertical radiator is the modern trans- mitter building. Connection -between the tower and the ,building is by means of a concentric transmission line carried above ground. At - the radiator end of the transmission line ds a coupling house. An important part of the radiating system is the vast copper -wire aground network ex- tending in the form of a huge cart- wheel from the centre of the tower in (Continued .from 'Page 7) IN HANDS OF MOTORISTS TO- PROTEST TAX As expressed 'by -qtr. J. V. i. kAree in his "Circle Bar" Fourth Calunnn, with respect to the proposed increase from 6 to 8 cents per gallon in gaso- line taxation, "The motorists feel it lacks the moral sanction of their own consent, and singles them out as a class. Nor .does it distinguish 'between the wealthy motorist and the man who uses - his flivver to earn his daily bread The more decrepit his car the more gas it is likely to consume."., `We suppose that in the case of - every tax the government is trying eo find the ,saturation point, to learn at just when the law of diminishing re- turns •clefeats the tr'bject of 'the tax increase 1t is in the hands of the motorists to show the government that the point Inas ,been reached and passed with another two cents a gal- lon on gasoline. The motorists have already done their share and a good deal more than their share, in the matter of paying for the 'building and maintenance of highways, "We hare no idea whether the tax is necessary; nr whether it involves a breach or faith, or whether the gov- ernment cannot raise the money it urgently requires in no fairer way. - These will be things for 'the govern - intent to estabiish. A4i we' suggest is that those who have their own rea-' sons for obljecting to the tax have in most cases the effective means in ' their own hands for resisting it."