That young fireball of a cause | own the typewriter, they What started this trend of

Conservation Officer, Brian made me the secretary. Several thought was, of course, the
Baldwin and his partner, came interesting committees have London Flu epidemic we are
‘in to set poison baits for them been formed to deal with the just beginning to get over.
around Bobby's place. Let's hope various projects we have in mind In the process of living so
some do-gooder from New York or and |'1]l keep you informed of close to one another in a
California (who once saw a wolf their activities as time goes tiny, closed community like
in a zoo) doesn't hear about by. Telegraph Creek, a mutual
that! They'd make an inter- bond grows between the res-
national incident about it. Per- «+-.-.@ little more news from idents, although this bond
sonally, | have nothing against JANUARY for you readers. is seldom very apparent or
wolves; they make nice chester- demonstrated. The one time
field throws, parka hoods, and TELEGRAPH CREEK NEWS. Those it becomes fully manifest is
aren't bad on a plate either: "good old days'' weren't always when one of the residents
The river is as solid as a so good. This morning "Uncle"! dies. Every winter we lose
rock now, so that's the way to [Eddy Frank was telling me another one or two; this
travel for the rest of the win- about the fearful epidemic of year it was Nellie Reid.
ter - should one have reason to 1942, which wiped out most of Nellie was still a young
go where the river takes you. the Indian pipulation of the woman, with a large family
The odd snowmobile travelling it, Old Tahltan Village. Eddy and and losing her will be a
but it wouldn't surprise me if Mike McLusky were the unofficial great hardship on them.
a careful person on snowshoes "undertakers", mainly because Cause of her death was main-
might surprise a band of wolves. there was no one else able to ly the flu bug, which virus
around one of the many bends in Stand up. Between them they has been such a problem
the river and get himself a buried somewhere around seventy everywhere this winter. Al-
neck-piece. | people, As there were only about most everyone here has been
Some of you will remember that 2 hundred Tahltans living there bedridden by it (sometimes
at the time, that must have for two bouts) during the

we had some bare around around
Telegraph a couple of Xmas's ago.
-Well, this winter has been un-
usually mild, but there is over
a foot of snow on the ground,
so please, Cassiarites, don't
rush down here looking for open
grazina. Every day we expect
winter to come, and just when
it looks as though it will, up
goes the thermometer again. No
complaints, but it's like wait-
ing for the guy upstairs to
drop his other boot, because we
know it will happen sooner or
later. So far it hasn't been
colder than 25 below.

Telegraph Creek has re-formed
its Chamber of Commerce and
meetings are being well attended,
Casca is well represented and
most of our new residents have
joined, Our main function is to
try to improve living conditions
in the community and area. If
enthusiasm is any indication,
we are sure to be successful.
Bobby Ball is our new chairman,
Ivan Quock (chief of the Tahl-
tans) is vice-president, Robert
Wheeler is treasurer and be-

dealt them a terrible blow. Many past couple of weeks and
whites think that Native people’ the school had to shut down
take a death in the family quite because of almost zero att-
lightly, but if you've lived endance, Let's hope it fin-
among them most of your life,you jshes making its rounds wi th-
know this isn't at all true. Per-out any more deaths. Some -
haps an Indian has a more phil- of the older people are feel-
osophical attitude towards cat- jing pretty weak and they are
astrophes, | don't know, but the ones the flu seems to

from what I've observed, a death hit the hardest.... me amona
affects them just as stronaly as them. ;
it does anyone else. If we con-

sider for a moment that all of - Jtm Hobart, Telegraph Creek
those who died were related to Poe a ji

each other and to the ones who ed
survived, we might then be able
to understand how much suffering
was experienced by those who had
to helplessly watch their famil-
ies die off one by one while
they themselves knew their turn
would probably come next. It
must have been a traumatic period
for the Tahltan people. Over the
years | have heard about this
epidemic; some said it was
typhoid, others claim it was
botulism, Eddy says it was a
combination of Hong Kong Flu-
and German Measles. So much for
racial integration.

WHOSE BUSHED?????...overheard
in the hallway, a prominent

office executive addressing °
someone - '"'By the way HUN.. (7)
What's this??? There were only

men present!!!