Page 14 January 1983 Cassiar Courier Tramline accident One of the 143 buckets dammed into Tower No: 8 approximately half-way up to the mine <> LIBRARY ‘\ NEWS A. large shipment of new books arrived in early Decem- ber. Most of these are non-fiction, and some of the more interesting are listed here: The Hurried Child: Growing Up Too Fast Too Soon, by David Elkind. Parents, the school system and the media put children under a great deal of stress by forcing them to be and do things they are physically and mentally in- capable of. This book examines the problems of the child forced to develop prematurely; and has sound ad- vice for parents. Single Parenting: A Practical Resource Guide, by Step- hen L. Atlas. A practical book of advice based on the author’s own experience. Books on current events: Bitter Fruit: The Untold Story of the American Coup Jin Guatemala, by Stephen Schlesinger and Stephen Kin- zer. The background to today’s ‘politics of attrition, in- timidation and terror’ in Guatemala is the Eisenhower- era coup, engineered in the interest of the United Fruit Company, that put an end to land reform in that coun- try. The book reads with the tension of a thriller, says Publishers’ Weekly. Iran: The Untold Story, by Mohamed Heikal. ‘An insid- er’s account of America’s Iranian adventure and its con- sequences for the future’ by Egypt's best known journ- alist. The Refused: The Agony of the Indochina Refugees, by Barry Wain. A solid, factual account of the plight of the ‘boat people’. EEE I OE EOE | In the New Year it’s HOLT AGENCIES INSURANCE | TUESDAYS 10:00 a.m. to 5:00 p.m. l 164 Elliott St. (Marvel Travel), Cassiar, B.C. For appointment Call 773-7220 Local Agent Means Local Service PERSONAL ARTICLES | HOME - TENANT - TRAILERS Pictured right: Damaged cars and haul- age cable looking from 1A Tower south toward the mill Labyrinth, by Taylor Branch and Eugene M. Propper. This is the story of the investigation of the death, in Washington in 1976, of the former American ambass- ador from the Allende government in Chile. Politics turn- ed the investigation into a labyrinthine maze. The book bristles with adventure and frightening glimpses of the international terrorist underground at work. Israel Now: Portrait of a Troubled Land, by Lawrence Meyer. A nation surrounded by enemies, and torn apart within, founded on the hope of a new world and now with the largest. standing army in the world relative to. population, Israel is decisively presented in this book. From the Yaroslavsky Station: Russia Perceived by Eliz- abeth Pond. After two years in Moscow as correspond- ent for the Christian Science Monitor she travelled across the Soviet Union on the Trans-Siberian Railroad. This is a memoir, reflective and analytical, of this trip and of the country in which it took place. Historical Books: he Life and Times of Joe McCarthy, by Thomas C. Reeves. An engrossing book about one of the most in- famous periods in American history and the man who orchestrated the nightmare. Highly recommended. Escape from Canada: The Untold Story of German POWS, 1939 — 1945, by John Melady. Thirty-five thous- and German prisoners of war were interned in Canada during the Second World War. This book, featured on Don Harron’s Morningside, tells their story. The Voyage of the Armada: The Spanish Story, by David Howarth. This is an account of Philip II’s folly drawn from previously unused Spanish sources that pierces through the veil of legend that surrounds this battle in English-speaking minds. MEETS MONDAY NIGHTS PHONE 778—7768 Pictured left: No. 7 Tower, which has to be replaced (half-way up to the mine) Conversations with an Executioner, by Kazimierz en Moczarski Dry Tears, by Nechama Tec Take Care of Josette, by Jacqueline Wolf Return to Auschwitz, by Kitty Hart Four books of the Holocaust. In the first, Moczarski tells the story of Jurgen Stroop, the man who led the mass- acre of the residents of the Warsaw ghetto. The conver- -Sations took place in prison at the end of the war: Stroop and Moczarski (who was later cleared of charges of collaborating with the Nazis) shared a cell. 255 days spent with this brutal, arrogant man, who was proud of his achievements in Warsaw must have been intolerable. '’ Dry Tears and Take Care of Josette are memoirs of fam- ilies who escaped the death camps with the help of non- Jews in Poland and France. Kitty Hart spent two years in Auschwitz, and returned to visit the camp many years later with her grown son. This is a story not about a death camp, but about life and lives sustained by incred- ible powers of will. and finally, two books just right for those New Year’s Resolutions: The Dieter's Dilemma: Eating Less and Weighing More, by William Bennett and Joel Gurin The 200 Calorie Solution, by Martin Katahn Both books say. what we always knew: dieting doesn’t work; and when you stop dieting and go back to a ‘normal’ eating pattern, you'll gain it all back and more. Exercise, along with sensible nutrition, is the only suc- cessful way to control weight. | keep telling myself that every time | get off the exercise bicycle and find that my weight has gone marginally up! by Bill Morrison Cassiar Celtics defeats Watson Lake On December 15th, Cassiar Junior Boys Basket- ball team hosted Watson Lake’s Junior Boys toa game of basketball. Both teams showed a tremen- dous effort. However, Cassiar dominated the floor with a final score of 81 - 40. The Cassiar team is coached by Merv Prier and the © team members are Andrew Nuyens, John Sethen, Szilard Friscka, Pat Moth, Garred Huber, Ken Price, Arun Lekhi and Shawn Penno. The high scorer of the game was Szilard Friscka, who with help from his team-mates, scored 52 points. Watson Lake has invited Cassiar to a return game during the month of January. GOOD LUCK & A JOB WELL DONE! Dining by Candlelight There are two fears you live with constantly ina company mining town. The first is the thought of possible disaster, the likes of Abervan or the more recent Kentucky coal mine. The second is the loss of the only source of work, whether caused by in- dustrial dispute, a drying up of a mineral load or just a poor market brought on by the economic climate. As I have never managed to sit through a full showing of “How Green Was My Valley” without a stiff drink. I am thankful it is the latter, rather than anything else that is the major cause of con- cern in this town at the moment. Still, it is with a sense of loss that we see old friends depart one by one for points as diverse as Deep River, Ont- ario, Caracas, Abu Dahbi and Belgrade. Who knows if we will see them again. At the same time you become aware of the uniqueness you have ex- perienced in this little mining town a thousand miles north of nowhere. Where else could you have such a coming together of cultures; a sharing of national and international pride and traditions, from which we must all surely profit. Yes, a lot of us will leave now. Those who can might return to their native homes. Others still look for hope in other Steelworkers camps. There’s hope yet in Faro — maybe Elsa or Can- tung or north again to the Beaufort Sea with Ot- tawa’s love affair with Gallagher and Dome. You must be safe there! For those of us who do return home, if we never travel again, when people ask how we managed all those years in the frozen north, where eight month winters give little breaks, we can say we visited Yugoslavia through the eyes of the Dance- tovics, Curila’s and Cvetkovich’s. Staman, Daniel, — Dusko and Drago shared as much. We saw Port- ugal in the minds of the Pinto’s, Ganhao’s, Marques’ and Santos’. The experience of India we shared with the Kurian’s, Bahjan Saul, Dhillon, Paul and Kuldip. If we forgot the Rhine we would have to forget Wolfgang, the Baker, the Voss’, Froelich’s and the Guderjahn’s, especially Alf, whose victory rolls in his ME 109 were often the only sound to break the silence of the forest around our cabin at Lang Lake. The wonders of the Orient and Indo China we came to by court- esy of Shrinky Lin Lee, Jimmy, Sook Ching, Thank, Quang Phat and Mai Ying, the mother hen of the cookery. For Tangier, Casa Blanca and: Marakeesh, we have Mo and Abdu to thank, and in the garden of the Middle East our guides were Hamze, Mohamed, Albert and Laila and Ali, Omar and Ossammi Dahrouj. We loved the in-. trigue and mystery of Algiers and Marseilles, which we have shared with my Blackfoot friend and partner, Charlie. No wonder DeGaulle wanted out! The town might pick up from its present pro- blems and survive for years to come, or fade into folklore like its sister town of Clinton Creek, al- ready part of Yukon’s fables, where men greater than we — Vincent, Diot, Larocque and Doucet, to name a few, lived, legends in their own time. Their memories will still live when nature has re- claimed the land we have borrowed and all that remains of their children’s birthplace will be a few Goetzinger pictures. Here are a few recipes shared with us by friends we have made during our years here. BANH XEO SAIGON (Saigon Crepe) serves 6 Mash % cup of Garbanzo beans in a processor, add 2 cups of coconut milk and I cup of rice flour and blend well. Heat 2 tablespoons of oil in Cassiar Courier January 1983 Page 15 by Terry Farrell an 8” frypan, add 2 slices of pork butt and seal well. Add 2 shrimp halves, several muchroom slices and a few slices of raw onion. Saute a few minutes, then add ¥% cup of batter and rotate the pan to spread the mixture. Add 2 tablespoons of bean sprouts and 2 tablespoons of reserved gar- banzo beans. Fold the pancake in half, cover pan and cook for a few more minutes. Remove to a heated platter and keep warm. Repeat, making 5 more crepes. Serve immediately. EGGPLANT IMAM BAALDI Cut an eggplant in half lengthways without peel- ing. Scoop out most of the pulp and chop roughly. Mix with chopped tomatoes, onions and currants. Fry the mixture in oil and fill eggplant with it. Place eggplant in an earthenware dish. Adda bay leaf and sprinkle with a little thyme. Cover with oil and._cook for 3 hours on a low heat. Remove from the oil. This dish is meant to be served cold. Its literal translation is ‘the Priest, fainted’. It is rumored that when a certain Imam was served this dish he was so moved with the fragrance he fainted out of sheer gastronomic joy. _ LHARENNYT POROSENOK (roast suckling pig) Take a 10 — 12 lb. suckling pig. Rub inside and out with coarse salt and black pepper. Brush the skin with vegetable oil, stuff a ball of tin foil in its mouth to keep open and cover ears and tail with tin foil. Roast in a 350°oven for 1% to 1% hours. If your oven is small you may remove the head and quarter the animal for roasting and re- assemble around a stuffing of Kasha (buckwheat oats, mushrooms and onions, seasoned and bound with eggs). This is a traditional feast for Orthodox Christmas. x On November 16th, Brad Petty, of Watsonville, California, completed the last leg of his return trip to Al- aska on horseback. Petty accomplished the journey in two legs. In 1981 he journeyed from Watsonville to Fair- banks, Alaska, as part of a campaign to raise money for the Cancer Society. May 26th he started the return jour- ney from Fairbanks to Watsonville. This trip he was rais- ing money for the Shriners Hospitals or Cancer Society Petty is happy to have made the trip but would not like to repeat it. The idea originated when Petty, who is a 6| year old former schoolteacher, retired. He could not visualize retiring to a rocking chair. Except for a detour from Fairbanks to the Arctic Circle, on his return journey Petty followed the same route he had travelled in 1981. This took him along the. Alaska and Cassiar highways, through central British Columbia, Washington, Oregon and California. He rode the same horses, Reville and Roamer, both ways and av- eraged 20 to 25 miles a day. Petty claims that he never _ would have been able to make the trip without the help and hospitality of the many people he met along the way. — particularly in the remote areas. The journey has" given him quite a different outlook on life. While he won’t.be making it again on horseback, he plans to drive the route with his wife, who will then have the: opportunity to meet the people and see the sights that he experienced on his journey. Horseman completes odyssey BRAD PETTY SAYS “THANKS” I would like to use your paper as one means to thank the people along the Cassiar who were so helpful to me on my return ride down the Cassiar. My ride took me from Watsonville, California, to Fairbanks, Alaska (March 1, 1981 to August 28, 1981). From Fairbanks to Disaster Creek, 100 miles north of the Arctic Circle and back to Wat- sonville, May 26, 1982 to November 16, 1982 (7,500 miles). Before I reached the Cassiar on my return ride, Gay Frocklage, 40 Mile Flat, dropped off a ‘Care’ package for me as I camped along the Alaska Highway east of Rancheria. I was visited at my camp on Cormier Creek by George and June Holman of Good Hope Lake, who brought me a bag of horse feed. When I got to Good Hope Lake George, June and the other people at the camp hosted me for a day while I rested and reshod my horses. Mighty Moe had bought grain for me but it was destroyed in the fire that swept thru his camp at Cotton Lake. Even with his great loss, Moe came out to visit with me and gave me a couple of cans of refreshingly cold orange juice. “Pokey”, your friendly delivery man was most helpful. He picked up a bag of oats from Gene Overton and delivered them to me on the Cassiar. Pokey also acted as a messenger and brought me supplies for the three weeks that I was on the Cassiar. At 40 Mile Flat, Mark, Gay, their family and Karin, were most helpful. They furnished me with a cabin, hot shower, four meals and Mark allowed me to use his equipment to shoe my horses. . To give my pack horse a break; Karin Groth delivered my gear to Tattoga Lake, where Mike Jones and his crew hosted me for an evening and sent me off the next day well rested and with a full stomach. ; - Al and Elaine Adams brought a 50 Ib. bag of grain to me at Tattoga Lake (I stayed with the Adams family on my ride to Alaska in 1981 and again in May when I drove up to Alaska to start my return ride). Don and Vi Lenny welcomed me to Kinaskan Lake Park, where J had lunch with them. When I reached Bob Quinn Lake, I was invited to stop over and give my horses a well deserved rest. At Bell II, Hazel and Ernie Kriest offered me a room for the night and dinner and breakfast. At the firefighters camp I was treated to a hot evening meal. From Hyder, Alaska, Lou Marx sent me 50 pounds of grain for my horses. At Camp 74, Jack Elsworth and his crew in- vited me to stay the night. A few miles north of Kitwanga, Gregg Town- send from Terrace made arrangements to bring me supplies and a B.C. flag to fly along with the rest of my flags. At Kitwanga, I was the house guest of both Archie Hipsley and Lawrence Stokes. Without the help of so many people, I could never have completed my ride. I just hope that I haven’t skipped someone who helped me. If I did, and I’m sure that I must have left someone out, I hope that they'll forgive me. On January 15, I’ll ride my horses in the East— West game at half-time at Stanford University. _ Tl be riding in the Rose Bowl Game Parade in Pasadena 1984 — not 1983. Eventually, Pll get around to sending all the people who helped me a thank you note, but it will be awhile. I have over 200 letters to write. Sincerely, Brad. Petty