Gathering All the News the site by the eye-witness, the information tended to be more accurate. For example, the day before the actual rescue, a Charlottetown newspaper put out a special edition claiming that the men had been released from the mine, resulting in the bells from Charlotte town's City hall and churches being rung prematurely. Art McDonald rushed to the microphone with the following announcement: We wish to warn our listeners against misleading news reports being circulated in a special edition of a Charlottetown news¬ paper now on the streets. This edition claims that the men have been rescued and states that'direct physical contact has been made with their rescuers. This report, printed and circulated several hours ago is by no means confirmed and may be unconfirmed for several hours. Keep your radio tuned to CFCYfor authentic half"hour bulletins direct from the mine. The newspaper men were furious. Their special edition had been rendered null and void, and they were not going to put up with that. In retaliation, scorching editorials were printed condemning the irre¬ sponsibility of radio reporting. Dad and Art McDonald hastened to a lawyer and had provisions made to have all rescue announcements made on the air authenticated by declaration and witnessed by a Notary Public. The owner of one Charlottetown newspaper, the Charlottetown Guardian, Mr. J.R. Burnett , a rather rotund, dour Scot whose word was law, had decided that "radio is bad business for the newspaper business." He called together his editorial staff and issued the following edict, "the word, radio must never appear in the columns of this newspaper." And to my knowledge, it seldom did for almost twenty years. Dad was a man who believed there was not much point in squab¬ bling. He liked Mr. Burnett , and Mr. Burnett liked him. They attended the same church, the Kirk of St. James Presbyterian , they attended Rotary and other social events together, but there was a tacit understand¬ ing on Mr. Burnett 's part and Dad respected it, that radio did not exist. Dad , to appease the bruised egos of the newspapermen, wrote a conciliatory editorial in which he pointedly used this phrasing, "Radio, 127