Page 6, Thursday, December 9th, 1971, WHITBY FREE PRESS THE SUN RISES IN TORONTO-by lim Iuali On October 30th the City of Toronto mourned a death. On that day the Toronto Telegram hit the streets for the last time and so ended an era of competition be- tween two afternoon dai1lies seldom seen in any North American city. Tely folds . W hen the Telegram died, Toronto I o s t a newspaper thataften struck out when it fel t the cause was just. The T e 1le g r a m was a warm, human news- paper and i t wiil 1 probabl y never be re- placed. Re alizing their paper was dying, a n u m b e r of employees of the Telegram d e c i ded on a course of action, and on November the Ist, as employees would have it, "The Sun Rose in Toronto". Rising of the Sun The Sun was not an afternoon paper and it would not replace the Tely but a go od deal of the staff were people who h ad worked for the Tely and had made it the warm paper it was for so many years. The Sun was amorning tabloid and to many i t was long needed. One Toronto reader was heard to say, "I never coul d master the art of fol ding a big newspaper on the subway anyway! I The first day press run for The Sun was around 50, 000 which was just about 45, 000 copies short. Executive Editor Peter Worthington, said, "It's absol- utely amazing, we are sell1 ing twice the number of paper s we thought we would. Plagued by press problems Tobe exact, the Sun rises from 322 K i ng Street West every morning about 4:Ooa.m. There are dayswhen, as Doug Creighton, publisher, putsit, "Th e Sun has risen late in Toronto". The paper has been plagued by press, failures and the staff can only hope the problems will soon be solved. Backers anonymous The paper was backed by a group of affluent Toronto individuals who prefer toremain anonymous. The building is a dirty, oldgreycolour and right now the paper i s working from the top floor or the "hay loft", as it is often called. If you said working conditions were not too good at The Sun, you might cer- THE WHITBY HISTORICAL SOCIETY is sponsoring W/NE & CHEESE PAR TY At The Whitby Arts Station December 9th - 8 p.m. till il p.m. FREE ADMISSION EVERYONE WELCOME, Kin LotteryIl tickets may be purchased from the following authorized sales outlets. Broughton Motors N Gus Brown Motors Ltd. Disney Motors Ltd. A&T Motors Ltd. McTeague Electric Ltd. Victoria & Grey Trust ,Whitby Cleaners Ltd. Bell Drafting & Reproductions Ltd. Champlain Printers Ltd., Scott Peters Typesetting Ltd. HISTORICAL The Whitby His- torical Society ex- tendsan invitation to the pubi c to at- tend their W ine & Cheese Party. There will be no admission charged. If you cannot at- tend the party and i f y o u wouldl1 ike t o becone a mem- ber of this interes- ti ng organization, please contact ar- chivist Brian Win- ter at telephone number 668-9490. Sun staff struggle to get paper out during open house tainly be taking an optimistic view. Ac- t u a I I y it's much worse than that. The staff is crow ded into the noisy top floor amon g old r a f t ers, boxes and crates an d the teletypes are less than 10 feet from the antiquated switchboard. Card- boar d boxes are used for copy boxes and t h e r e isn't exactly a wealth of el- ectrical fixtures as columinist Paul Rim- steadwill tell you. But things are changing and at pres- ent the whole third floor is being sand- b I a s t e d and renovated in preparation f or The Sun moving downstairs. Even t h e oI d d il1a pidated elevator cal led, "Fanny" is being fixed. I t seems some of the staff are not thrilled with the idea of jogging up five flights of stairs every d a y. Despi te a I I the mess and incon- venience, the staff is pitching in toget- herandeverybody tries to laugh off the hardships. f a s t "Leave it to Rimstead" The Sun had been out on the streets r a month when columnist Paul Rim- e ad decided it was time to invite the continued on page 12 COUNCIL INNOCENT There has been a certain amount of concern expressed by our readers that council has had the bench on the south s i de of the Canadian Imperial Bank of Commerce removed to suit a request of some weeks ago. President of the Whitby Garden Club, theorganization responsible for donat- ionof the bench, told the "Whitby Free Press" that the bench was not removed by council, but that it is in fact, being newly painted and relettered. Thistimeitseems, council is not the culprit. Li' SATE moey on DI Premium BuaIiy Fuel Ol DX OIL m"å 668-3341