OUT OF THIN AIR this majestic airship as it glittered in the sun and finally passed out of sight. Another day, just at dawn, we were on hand to wave and shout as two trans- flyers, Errol Boyd and Harry Connors took off in their small plane to fly the . Several days before, they had made an emergency landing at the foot of halfway up the slope. They thought this would make a good take-off place when the weather cleared and they could resume their flight. They did get across the , the eighth recorded crossing, but they just made it, out of gas, landing on a tiny Island off the British Isles. This was the type of news my father would write up and there were plenty of items too about lost children, dogs and other pets. The time of arrival of the Borden Train , our main transportation link to the rest of Canada , was always a highlight of the news as it would quite often be hours late due to winter storms. The funeral announcements at the end of the news would call for absolute silence in most homes. The people of Prince Edward Island get really involved in elections. The election of 1935 was no exception. My father usually tried to give non-partisan and fair coverage of both parties, but this time an old friend, Liberal Walter Lea , was in the running to become Premier again. Lea was ill at his home just outside the village of Victoria. He asked my father if he would attempt to broadcast a speech from his home. Now, a broadcast from a rural district as far away from Charlottetown as Victoria had not been attempted before. It would require the taking over of the one telephone line from Crapaud to Victoria and beyond, a line that served twenty or thirty families. They would all have to agree to stay off the telephone while Walter Lea was speaking. It was a tricky situation, as there were both Conservatives and Liberals on that rural line. I remember driving out there with my father while he personally called on every one of the telephone subscribers to ask for their cooperation. Normally, it would have been likely for the anti-Lea forces to break in on the line and ruin the broadcast. But Walter Lea was an exception¬ ally popular man, the first farmer to have been elected Premier of the province. Everyone gave their promise to keep the line open. Lea won the election with a clean sweep of all 30 seats—an unprecedented vic¬ tory to that time 1935—and the victory speech from Lea's bedside was a success, the first remote broadcast of this type attempted by CFCY. Dad realized that we needed a special place for the news department when we moved to the Brace Block . He and Art talked it over. Art 116