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A funeral service will be held on Thursday, March 18th, at 1 p.m. at St. Jude's Anglican Church in Oakville. Cremation to fol­ low. Carlson, a native of Wetaskiwin, Alberta, near Edmonton, was best known as a newspaper publisher and corporate executive for multinational companies. Among his most senior posts were as publisher of The Hamilton Spectator, and of Financial Times of Canada, a Southam busi­ ness newspaper in Toronto. He was also a vice-presi­ dent and corporate secretary at the Ford Motor Company of Canada's headquarters in Oakville, and a senior exec­ utive in Vancouver for Crown Zellerbach Canada, the California-based pulp and paper concern. Carlson enjoyed a pro­ fessional career that cov­ ered six decades and several disciplines. It began in 1940 at CFGP, a tiny radio station in Grande Prairie, Alberta, where he worked as a news­ caster. He then signed on with Jack Kent Cooke, at the time an aspiring media tycoon, at a small radio sta- Donald Carson tion in Timmins, Ontario. From there, Carlson became a newspaperman. A sportswriter by trade, he broadened his journalistic expertise as a reporter and editor covering business and general news for a num­ ber of major Canadian dailies, including The Toronto Star, The Vancouver Sun, The Vancouver Province, and The Vancouver Herald. During his reporting days, Carlson interviewed a number of statesmen, sports heroes, and celebrities, including British Prime Minister Winston Churchill, Canadian Prime M inister MacKenzie King, Lena Horne and Bing Crosby. He covered Babe R uth's farewell at Yankee Stadium in 1948 for The Vancouver Sun. In 1953, he left the news­ paper business and entered public relations and adver­ tising. He was director of public relations for James Lovick & Company, the Vancouver advertising agency, and then Crown Zellerbach. He was named director of public relations for the Ford M otor Company of Canada in 1959, and became vice-president and corporate secretary in 1963. In the early 1970s, Carlson returned to journal­ ism as publisher of Financial Times of Canada, and later that decade moved the paper's operations to Toronto from Montreal to be closer to the country's financial hub. In 1982, he was named publisher of The Hamilton Spectator, and vice-president and director of Southam. In 1984, he was named executive direc­ tor o f developm ent and community relations for M cM aster U niversity in Hamilton. On retiring in 1986, Carlson established his own consulting firm, and contin­ ued to write as a columnist for a number of publica­ tions. As a teen-ager in Alberta, Carlson was signed to a minor league contract by the St. Louis Cardinals in 1936. At the time, Canadians were a novelty in professional baseball, and he was nicknamed "Canada." An infielder with good range and a strong throwing arm, he worked his way up from the Evangeline League (Class D), to the Northern league (Class C), then to the Texas League (Class A) and the Southern Association (Class AA). In 1939, he was called up to Rochester, N.Y., in the International League (Class AAA), but did not report because of the activation of his commission in the Canadian Army, where he was a Second Lieutenant from 1940 to 1942. He did not return to baseball after the Second World War. Among his most memo­ rable moments in baseball was batting as a teenager against pitching great Satchel Paige during an exhibition game. "Paige told me each time what type of pitch he was going to throw me," Carlson recalled of his first at-bat. "And I still struck out swinging on three pitches." Carlson's love for base­ ball did not end with his playing days. 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