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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