~ as well. He’s had a home on

the days and the years and the

“worked or even the papers he’s

-years ago? -When the’ black
“-stopped?.

Wrote through it. Today it’s a
~; Memory, -A "pleasant enough:

“>. Remember... Hiroshima?
Remember
‘ niversary? So. does: Jack: he

Subsequent tour-of Japan three.

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Page 8

THE REVIEW

Wednesday, January 26, 1977 .

The following — article
originally. appeared in- the
DRIFTWOOD on Salt Spring
Island and was penned by the.
publisher. ‘of that. weekly
newspaper,

By FRANK RICHARDS

Jack Scott? Of course you
know him! You’ve -been
reading’ his columns long
enourh: in the. News-Herald
and the Vancouver Sun and the
Toronto Star and the Victoria
Times, as well as half the
papers in British Columbia.

That's Jack Scott. And now
he’s retired here.

And took him long enough,

You read it? He wrote it.

It's been a busy life since the
day he walked: into: the old
News-Herald office in Van-
couver as a copy boy at: the
great age of 16. oe .

Truth of the matter is that he
was ‘born to the business: He
was in it before-he knew it. The
day Jack was born, his father
Edgar Scott, was an editor on
Dafoe’s paper, the Winnipeg
Free Press. Andghat says a lot,
because for many an old-time
Canadian newsman Dafce was
granddaddy of them all and
the Free Press was tops.

Then, when he was five,
Jack moved to the coast with
his. family while- his . father
assumed new. duties at the
Vancouver Province.

the iskand.for the past near-30
years, — But). he finally
came home.

So what does a successful
newsman do when he’s retired?

He writes, What else? He’s
still got a typewriter, hasn't
he? But “he does a ‘lot: of
thinking back. He remembers

retired: newsman on the island:
Edgar Scott was close friend
and .admirer. of ‘*Torchy’’

Ganges. °

Jack ‘was in no hurry. He
waited another 11 years before
he started into . the same
business. He went.on with the
staff-owned News-Herald and
continued there until. he was
city editor and then managing
editor. It: was. at. the News-

stories. and. the people. That
makes a lot of days and a lot of
stories: and whole -host of
people. ce
And places. So many places.
It’s. not just. the cities he's

worked for. It’s the people and
the places. Because they. made

writing acolumn.
the stories and the stories. made :

PRIVATE SCOTT :

his life. | :
. ..Came the Second Worl
j.

aon eat re the | War and. Private Jack Scott

MauMau troubles in Kenya, 20 | tabbed by an eager Canadian
Army . to contribute to the
army
‘Leaf.

He was with the Intelligence
Corps and did other duties, but
‘he. was still .a newsman. in

uniform.for part of the.war.

uprising started. a landslide in
Africa which -has ‘never

It was Jack Scott who wrote
it. -He ‘lived through it. and

as. associate editor- of the
Maple Leaf.and later, during
the) Occupation. he was. in
Delmanhorst, in.Germany, as
managing editor-of the edition
there. He came out as-captain. .
_ By this time he. had some
wanderlust still not. accounted

memory, but it Was no memory
and -not -pleasant.-during ‘the
height of the‘troubles. ”

the -10th” an-.

covered’ it’ And’ he. did a

years ago.

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term nature of these deposits, it
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interest .than on conventional

savings deposits,
2. Income Fund, High-yield bonds,

deposit Instruments and mortqages

insured under the National Housing
Act make up this portfolio which is
actively managed by. professionals,
The policy ts lo-achieve as high a.

_ this fund.

Ten Adamson

That, links up with another:

Anderson, of Old Scott Road,

Herald that he cut his teeth on

newspaper, the Maple.

~In-London he put in a stint’

for.’ First... post-war. ap-_

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...for a lot of reasons.

pointment was as managing
editor of the Guiana Graphic,
in Georgeiown, Guiana.

-He was soon back in B.C.
and the. Vancouver ‘Sun
became his new home. He was
columnist -and_ editorial!
director for 18 years. It was the
Vancouver Sun and, later, the

‘Toronto Star which: were to

send him-around the world.
- Trouble? There goes Jack! It
was like clockwork. a,
Remember Aber-fan? The
little Welsh mining town where
a mountain of rubble rubbed
out a school? So does Jack. He
remembers
because.-he. lived ‘every. detail
and wrote every detail.

The: Six-day War was. live, -

hot news not.so very long ago.

_Jack-Scott found it.so when he-

covered. the war’ from ‘both

Cairo and Tel Aviv.
And -jlooking back. on:

another fight, ‘he. recalls. four

_trips to Cuba to report on Fidel»

Castro's revolution:

every: detail

In 1963 he left: the Sun. and
joined the staff of the Toronto
Star, and. was promptly
shipped off to South America
for two years. He spent a year
in Buenos Aires and a year in
Rio de Janeiro. . :
‘After South-America he was
back in. London as chief of the
Star’s European: Bureau, in
London. - :

He spent. two years” in

Europe before coming back to

retire. on the island.
Eight years ago, that was it!

He was here for good: free as:

the air and all ready to get

down to it and write something»

for himself. _—
»~ But it didn’t. work that way.
“Next thing-he knew, he was
‘writing . a. column

‘a successful ‘column among

office.

significant

brought

‘developing when

for: the.
Victoria Times and syndicating.:

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Former Review Columnist Retires To Salt Spring

dozens of weekly newsp. ~. vs.
Poor health brought him

back to the island this year.
And here he is to reflect ona

“brilliant career that. brought

him close to many of the
_ incidents of the
world’s. history in recent
decades.

It has. been a career that
him not only
satisfaction, but a gratifying
recognition.

His series of stories on
Quebec brought him the
National Newspaper Award.
The series was particularly
significant. because he was
probably the first newsman to
recognize the threat of
separatism by French Canada.

His receipt of the Bowater
Award. was in token of his
writing on the race problems in

South Africa.

Today, he can reflect'on the
pattern which has unfolded
since he drew the attention of
Canadian readers to what was
the foun-
dations were being laid.

CIVIL LIBERTIES

Jack received the award to
the University. of — British
Columbia for promoting the
causes of civil liberties. He is
also proud of the two suc-
cessive awards he won from
the Media Club of Canada for
columns, -

Some of his reflections ar
closer to home.

Jack Scott wrote the story of
the first civilian: coverage of
the” Alaska | Highway, | the
military transcontinental: road
which .onee. echoed
stamp of army boots, when it
was restricted to military
traffic: oo

Incidentally, one of -his most

interesting recollections is the
coast-to-coast. trailer tour :of

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Giant faust be completed by

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qi . .

‘this reflecting? ;

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which took seven months and
covered 17,000 miles.
And where is Jack to do all

He’s. right in the house he
bought 30 years ago from Ivan
Mouat, on Rainbow Road. He
was shown the place by
‘Willie’? Mouat, Ivan’s
father. He has retired to the
old Ivan Mouat home as Ivan
Mouat comes back ‘to retire to
the new Ivan Mouat home, in
Fulford..

In 30 years the island has
changed, recalls the retired
newsman. .

NEEDS A TRIP

“It used to be that you’d
know everybody at Mouat’s
Store or the Golf Club,’’ he
observed, ‘‘But. now the
growth has been so great that it

takes a trip to Vancouver to -

remind yourself that. it’s still-a
retreat. from: the. urban rat-
race!’’

He also commented that he
can remember the golf course
when you ‘‘matted’’ the sand
greens before putting.

Jack ‘is retired here with his

wife, Grace, whom he married
in 1938. Their children are up
andaway.- :
_ Judy is in Johannesburg, in
South Africa, with
husband and - their
daughter, Cory.

Cory is an.islander, for she
was born on Salt. Spring
Island.

Jill is living in ‘Victoria and
Jenny. is-in Grande Prairie,

grand-

and Vivian .Walsh, -of Salt
Spring. Andy is a pilot.

And when he looks back on™ |

a successful. career in- jour-
nalism, Jack has a mountain of
experience to delve into from
his island: retreat.

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