Oakah Jones, who died yesterday at 72, became president of the Canadian National Exhibition in 1969 when it had a deficit of $606,000. When he left in(...)

Original Toronto Star caption: Oakah Jones, who died yesterday at 72, became president of the Canadian National Exhibition in 1969 when it had a deficit of $606,000. When he left in 1971, there was a $288,000 surplus. He became a Canadian citizen in 1962.