Dear TIME-Reader:

THE population of fast-growing Calgary (196,000),. Alta. took a noticeable rise last week with the arrival of TIME's Ed Ogle, his wife Ruth Margaret (known as RM) and five of their seven children. Ogle is opening TIME's first news bureau in western Canada as part of an expansion of our coverage of Canada and the U.S. Replacing Ogle in Denver is Barron Beshoar, former Los Angeles bureau chief. Beshoar's successor in Los Angeles is Frank McCulloch, former Dallas bureau chief, whose most recent assignment has been as a National Affairs writer.

The Calgary bureau will give TIME, which has three bureaus in eastern Canada, better balanced staff coverage of Canadian news in general. Reporting the west's vast growth of population and industry and the development of its natural resources, Bureau Chief Ogle will work with the 16 of our 35 part-time Canadian correspondents who are scattered through Alberta, British Columbia, Manitoba, Saskatchewan, the Yukon and Northwest Territories.

Correspondent Ogle, who was born in Indiana but reared in Colorado, is well accustomed to such a far-ranging beat. He was assistant managing editor of the New Orleans States and one of our string correspondents when he came to the staff in 1951 as Denver bureau chief. Recalling the day his family arrived in Denver from New Orleans, Ed said: "I met them at the airport, installed them in a motel and took off that same afternoon for an assignment in Montana." After that he kept on traveling over the Rocky Mountain states, covering regional politics, Indian affairs, Colorado's uranium boom and the birth of the U.S. Air Force Academy, as well as week-to-week news breaks. To help his children trace his travels, Ed hung an airlines map of the U.S. on the living-room wall at home. Each trip, RM lined up the kids, varying in age from almost three to 20, for a briefing session on father Ogle's latest assignment. Once, when a uranium rush took him to Lake Athabaska in northern Saskatchewan, which would be about four inches above the top of the Ogle map, son Andy, 10, exclaimed : "This time daddy went clear out of this world!"

The Ogle children, except for 18-year-old Eric, who is now a Navy communications technician in North Africa, and Sandra, 20, who will continue nurse's training in Denver, were delighted about the move to Canada. All avid campers and fishermen, they looked forward to new adventures in rich and rugged western Canada. Soon after he heard about the transfer, son Kelly, 7, sighed: "I'm waiting about as fast as I can."

Says father Ogle: "A Canadian statesman-writer has said, 'the 20th century belongs to Canada.' I'd like to add the footnote that it especially belongs to western Canada. It's magnificent country, the kind I always have felt was home."

Cordially yours,

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