European Stars And Stripes (Newspaper) - October 16, 1985, Darmstadt, Hesse                                Wednesday october 16, 1985 the stars and stripes Page 9 can is voice of Home to Canadian forces radio television stations broadcast daily in two languages by Joseph Owen Stuttgart Bureau . Germany Tor 16,000 canadians stationed in Europe the voice of Home is a radio and television network that broadcasts daily in two languages to an audience scattered through a Chain of communities 250 Miles Long. Our mandate is to keep canadians in touch with Canada and themselves said the Canadian forces network s English programming director. Ronald me Gibbon whose can experience spans 28 years. The network also tries to entertain canadians and inform them about their european neighbors said net work director Pierre . Unlike the americans the canadians arc a Small Community in Europe and unlike the British and dutch they arc thousands of Miles from their Homes. Basically the radio station s Job is to make the adjustment As smooth As it can be Mcgibbon said. Larose said the potential audience last summer included about 10.000 canadians in the Lahr area. 4.500 around Budzn so Mingen Canadian forces base and about 1,000 in Heidelberg Ramstein and Brun sum Netherlands the audience comes from All parts of Canada Urban and Rural coastal and Prairie English speaking and French speaking. We see it As a microcosm of what Canada is  Larose said. To network s radio stations weave together music local news twice daily Canadian broadcasting co. Live news broadcasts taped Csc features weather sports local interviews and Community bulletins ranging from bake Sale announcements to alerts that troops arc re turning from training. Announcers Are jacks of All trades who juggle those duties and others such As an swering the Telephone. We re probably the Only radio station in the world where that sort of activity goes on with so few people Mcgibbon said. Can has 33 full time radio and television employees in , eight at Badin soul Lingen and two in their new Brun sum studios All on an annual budget which Larose said is Well Over $1 million Canadian. Taxes pay for most salaries with the rest coming from Ca Nadian Exchange profits and Otic a local enterprises. The network staff also includes part timers and volunteers. We use a lot of volunteers Larose said. That complements our Small staff we Only have five to  in  and Badin soul Lingen can offers a smorgasbord of radio and to programming in English As can and in French asic Roseau pcs forces Ca  Louis Theriault a former radio Canada program director in Rimouski Quebec orchestrates the French Content. Larose said three Canadian television networks and the Canadian film Board provide taped English and French television shows making up 60 to 70 percent of the to schedules. Can also broadcasts popular Amer ican television programs such As magnum  and Miami  Theriault said they need to build a balanced sched ule adding. It s not  the to stations also offer local programming when possible. The Rhaull said Lahr s French station presented for the first time last summer 15-minute Fea Tures about local fests Canadian activities and events in the nearby Alsace Region of France. Can tradition is rooted in radio however. Its origins Date to the Early 1950s, when a half do in Canadian radio Hobby clubs were broadcasting in several euro Pean locations. Mcgibbon left Csc in British Colum Bia in 1957 to work at a station near Dortmund. Ger Many. Later he was assigned to met. France to bind five stations into a network. That was really the birth of can. It was in 1962," he said. Five years later. France evicted the Canadian forces forcing can to shuffle from one temporary Headquarters to another. In one year we moved the radio station three times without losing one hour of broadcasting  Mcgibbon said. It moved to Lahr in december 1967. The radio station was set up in a one bedroom apartment by the railway station he said. The trans Mitter was in the Kitchen. It was on the ninth floor and the elevator was always breaking  the following june can moved to its present Home on Jam Strassl. French radio broadcasts began in 1971. A French language radio and television station began operating in Badin soul Lingen in 1982. Stations opened in the intervening years to serve the three other communities. Despite the growth. Larose said can is a Nirh More personal radio station much More involved with the Community than an can  announcer Douglas Aldridge agrees citing c in s live play by play reports of local league Hotkey games As an example. And Larose said listeners respond quickly if an announcer omits an expected announce ment. Can officials also answer both to Csc which has provided the network with programming and staff members such As Larose and to military supervisors. Larose said most military supervisors have left the network s All civilian staff to its own devices without influencing programming Content. One frustration Larose and the can listeners have had to live with is the radio station s 500-Watt signal. Which travels 15 to 20 Miles but does t reach Many canadians who live behind Hills or in valleys television reception is even poorer because that signal is weaker he said. We have to educate the people to use antennas and receiving systems said Larose. In Canada you be got big booming stations which cover a wide area. We can t do that  a transient audience frustrates that goal however. When people arc Here two or three years they Don t want to invest a lot of Money in a system they la have to sell or lose w Hen they move out he said. Y Gui thu Ellef reporter announcers a clone Midland scale do and Christian c uric you Stith Tinno Uncur Kim Wooder at Canadian forces network radio station at . Here s How to tune in Canadian forces to Channel 60 in Lahr Cable on in Baden soc Lingen Canadian forces radio pm Only Lahr 90.5 pm Baden soul Linncon 96.x pm heidelberghu.9 pm rums Cin 101.25 pm Brun sum  pm Maine Canadian Hunters feuding Over Moose Augusta. Maine a canadians who so Maine As a giant game preserve Are legally luring More Moose across the Border according to a wilderness Warden who says Hunters tree stands Are popping up like  meanwhile a feud among Canadian poachers competing for Maine Moose is heating up says Warden Michael Farcau who patrols 849 Square Miles in Northwestern Maine. There s a Range War going on he said monday. A barn was burned sunday night and a Hunting Camp was torched three weeks ago As the War Between poachers who cat Moose meat and those who sell it commercially raged. Ironically those who use the meat them selves have been helping Farcau lately. He said they have been coming into Maine and showing him trails their rivals use to Hunt Moose. They despise people who shoot Moose to sell them explained Farcau. Some poachers have devised ingenious schemes to kill Maine Moose he said. One tree stand a Lookout where Hunters wait until a Moose comes along near the Bor Der in Maine was accessible Only from a Road carved through the Woods in Canada. You could t get there from anywhere in Maine said Favreau. I found five notches carved into a bar at the top. That s not for  he found boxes of Oats tied to Trees and Salt licks placed on the ground to lure Moose. In other parts of his jurisdiction he has seen where All terrain vehicles and skid Ders heavy tractors used to haul Timber have come across to fetch Moose that arc illegally shot. In one troublesome township Farcau lost 12 Moose since april. Some of them were lured across the Border and shot in Quebec. Commissioner Glenn h. Manuel of Maine s Inland fisheries and wildlife department said enforcement is not a problem and that he has not gotten reports that poaching is any worse than usual. Maine s six Day Moose Hunt opens monday. Manuel said he has gone Down the St. John River in a Canoe and has seen stands in Canada made of everything from trac Tor cabs to tents but he said they Are nothing new. This has been going on for 50  Farcau said there Are at least 200 tree stands in his area alone. 20 More than a year ago. It s unbelievable. They re grow ing like  a department spokesman said one War Den Pilot reported seeing six or seven stands within 300 Yards and in one spot he saw 17 vehicles. I is not against Maine Law for canadians to Call Moose from their Side of the Border and kill them in their own country. Some even make their Moose Calls from the River that forms part of the Border. Favreau said Moose arc More plentiful in Maine because permits to kill them in the state arc harder to get. This is Only the fifth year since 1980 Maine has had a Moose Hunt. There was none in the state for 45 years before that. To them this is like a big giant game preserve said Farcau. In Maine Only 1,000 Moose permits Are issued per year to people whose names Are chosen in a lottery. There is no lottery in Quebec where it costs a total of $40 to Register a Moose Hunter and his partner said Favreau. Maine s season runs concurrently with Quebec s for those who use guns. But Bow Hunters were allowed to Hunt Moose in can Ada starting oct. 5. The dual seasons could complicate enforcement in Border areas said game department spokesman Paul Fournier. Former Benny show Singer Kenny Baker Dies at 72 . Calif. A Kenny Baker a Gulden voiced Singer who played a bumbling foil on Jack Benny s radio show before establishing his own film and stage presence a died of a heart attack at age 72. Baker succeeded Frank Parker on the Benny show As a Daffy youth who baffled Benny and listeners with his twisted logic a role later perfected by Dennis Day. Baker s music provided a break in the program s comedy. Baker left Benny for his a an radio pro Gram and later Sang on the air for Fred Allen