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such things, but this all takes time and
red tape.

With the nice weather here once more,
the town seems deserted, Every year, as
soon as possible, the local residents

all seem to head for the hills and valleys,

creeks and lakes, mountains or somewhere.
You could fire fire a gun down main street
and not hit anyone. (Oops, sorry Clyde!)
Every road and trail out of here has its
share of hikers and campers and a few
tents can already be found, all set up
for loafing or exploring the country.
Those of us who have boats are on the
water and the odd lucky one even has a
plane to fly around here. And, man, is
it hard to get and keep your mind on the
job! The school kids don't help much,
either, with their wistful looks out the
window. Let's face it, how can you keep
your mind on The Indonesian Problem when
the grass is green, the leaves are out,
dandelions are blooming, the lake is
open and the river is perfect for boating?
Spring bear hunting has started, but
still no news from any of the hunts. With
such weather to work in, hunting must

really be prime right now. After last fall,

the guides really deserve a break.

Work has begun on the Tahltan Community

Centre and several other local projects,

so the men are pretty busy again and the
women, of course, are damned glad of it.

' And most of us have survived the long
winter cursing season after all. I get
more miserable every winter, so it always
‘surprises me that someone hasn't shot me
up yet. Nice way to go for a "gunbug", of

~ «course, - ‘4 4

We had an interesting visit by the
Non-Status chap, Cliff Supernault, and
it looks well for ail of us Non-Status
types. At long last something is being.
done for the "“in-betweens"., While Cliff
was here, he took time to give all the
interested boys a few tips on tossing a
baseball. Seems that Cliff is a pro
baseball player and there's no doubt he
knows his stuff. One more lesson from
him and I might have even learned how to
burn leather myself.

Along with Cliff came a TV crew from
Vancouver and they took a lot of footage
of our beautiful little village. Like
all visitors, they were very impressed by
what they saw, and they in turn made a
good impression upon all the kids in
school. If you saw a whale flying over
Cassiar one day, that was their plane.

Beautiful piece of Indian painting gave
it a character all its own. Unfortunately,

we Telegraph Creekers are lucky to get
even poor radio receiption, let along TV,

so I guess we'll never get to see what

our hamlet looks like.

Enjoyed a visit to Cassiar a few weeks

ago and was really impressed by your
doctor and the hospital staff. If you

insist on being sick, Cassiar is the place
to live. And say, why is everybody bagging

pine cones?

- Jim Hobart

BIRD'S EYE VIEW of Telegraph Fire, ,
eeceeeee by Scotty Hawkins

One hot day we was play ball and our
teacher was in school getting ready for
our school work when he smelled smoke.
Same time Mg. Peters rang the bell and
Jim ran out and about a couple seconds
he came running back. I was standing
beside Mr. Peters when Jim told him that
he was going to show him something. When
they started to go out and I started
behind them.

We went to the’top of the hill and we
looked down. Right in the town a house
was on fire. It was William Clem's
-house. I ran back and told some of the
kids and a lot of them came out, ran top
of the hill and just look down. Our
teacher ran in his house and got his
camera, went top of the hill and took
some pictures.He got hold of two buckets
and told us to run over to Casca to get
help. About five of us ran over and told
Bruce Creyke. He got his pick-up. Some
men jumped in, He started to drive when
he met about seven men going to work for
the Non-Status. Bruce stopped and told
them there's a fire at Williams Clem's
place. They jumped in, just then Norman
Dennis came and Bruce started to drive.
Norman stopped and two of my brothers
got in and Partrick Carlick came running.
He got in and Norman started to drive. I
started to run back to school when all
of the women started to walk over to the
school where they can look down and watch
the houses burn. Some of the men ran
down. I got top of school hill. Jim was
already down by the creek filled two
buckets and started running when one of
the Reids boy came and helped him. He