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Methinks and Hesoidits

3 a SS I “
IFE MEMBERSHIPS were presented to four
members of the Pythian Sisters on Thursday of

last week when 50 year pins were presented to
two Castlegar women as well as a Trail and
- Neleon woman. Reéeiving pins, which repre-
sented over 200 years of active participation in
the Pythian Sisters are, seated, left to right,
Ethel Johnason of Nelson, who joined the order
in 1921, and Clara Saunders of Castlegar, whose

membership began in 1916, Standing, left to *

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right, Queenie Bingham of Trail who joined in
1924 and has a joint membership with Castlegar
and Trail and Edith Wilson of Castlegar, who
joined the order in 1922, The pins were
Presented by Most Excellent Chief Mrytle
‘Thomas of Castlegar. Following that evening's
routine business meeting of Kootenay Temple
No. 37 Pythian Sisters a special cake honoring
the Life Members was served during coffee.

—Seaman Dewis Photo

Ghost Sends Family Fleeing
Then Hogs the Whole House

Britain has been plagued
with a housing shortage ever
since German bombs flattened
most of London's residential
area and thousands of Common-
wealth immigrants moved in as
the former British Empire was
chopped, up into independent
countries.

But now, the poteritial
British tenant has to deal with
yet another problem—ghosts

who have decided to horn in on
the rental business,

One such ghost refused to
let a family move into a house it
haunts in Exeter.

The tenants, Raymond
Prin, 23, his wife, Sandra, and
baby son, Michael, were turned
down twice by the town council
when they applied for a new
house, claiming the one they
were renting was haunted.

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fled their haunted house and
went to stay with Mr. Prin’s
parents. Now, the council says,
“Even though we don’t believe
the house is haunted, you can
have another one.”

The Prins explained that
they fled their home because
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selves on and off and they could
hear the sound of an invisible
man's voice.

In desperation, the Prins
called in the local vicar who
tried an exorcism, which failed.

= Thena spiritualist tried his
bag-of tricks and said he con-
tacted a fair-haired young man
who had been killed in a
motorcycle accident. The spir-
itualist then’ spoke with this
entity for an hour to try and
convince him that he was
causing misery for the Prins.

But to no avail. The spook
refused to vacate the premises
and now the house is vacant.

But, says a spokesman for
the Exeter council, “We have
2,000 families on our waiting
list. The house will soon be
lived in, ghost or no ghost.”

But for the time being, the
spook has won the first round of
the battle and he isn't even
paying any rent.

From Page 1B

By John Boble
Fact or Fictlon—
Some yeara ago, a

friend of mine.

who was a re-

porter for the

Vancouver Prov-

ince, was as-

signed: to cover the Canadian
Institute of the Blind,

Watching a bowling tour-

nament arranged for the sight-

less, he observed that one of

the contestants was also deaf,

This the game, as

2. Mothinks and Yousaidits

Greater than Fiction

: whata cost! Our best brains are

ulllized contriving such non-
sense and then selling it,

“On top of that, we are
using up our resources to the
point that already we are a
have-not nation. We must im-
port our raw materials, Our
mountains of iron, our seas of
oil, our once seemingly endless
natural resources have been
flushed down the sewers of this
throw-away economy.

“On top of it all, what do

the player was informed via
sign language transmitted to
the palm of his hand by his
guide after every cast of the
ball.

Thinking that this ap-
parently impossible feat of a
blind-deaf person playing a
game of bowling rated feature
treatment, he wrote an article
‘on the event and sent it off toa
national magazine.

His rejection slip com-
mented "We are not interested
in fiction, our articles are
always based on facts!”

Methinks fiction is occa-
sionally more plausable than
fact. Take for instance the
following, culled from a story of
Mac Reynolds named “Of God
Like Power":

“It's still as good an
example as any,” Tubber sigh-
ed. “Very well, our idea man
hires’ some highly trained en-

‘ gineers, some of our best

technicians, to design the elec-
tric martini stirrer,

They succeed.

He then turns to industry
and orders a large number of
devices. Industry, tools up,
using a great many competent,
highly trained men, and a good
deal of valuable materials.

Finally, the martini. stir-
rers are finished. Our entrepre-
neur must now market them,
He turns to Madison Ave. and
invests in advertising and pub-
lic relations.

To this point, nobody in the
United Welfare States of Amer-
ica had the vaguest desire for
such a device, but they are soon
educated. Advertising through
every medium; campaigns con-
ceived of by some of the most
clever brains our country can
produce.

‘And side by side go the
public relations men. It
mentioned in’ some colimnist's
blather that Mary Malone, the
TV star, is so pleased with her,
martini stirrer that she has
begun having’ cocktails before
lunch as well as before dinner.

It is understood the
Queen's bartender invariably
uses one. It is dropped that
Think Watson the Fourth of
1.B.M.-Remington wouldn't
dream of drinking a martini
mixed otherwise.”

“I get your drift,” Ed said.
“So everybody buys one. But
what harm’s done? It keeps the
country going.”

“It keeps the modern econ-
omy going is quite true. But at

Exhibition Museum

1,200 square feet of exhibit
space and circulate to museums
across Canada. Application has
been made to the National

Layaway!
Use Your Head! Our Layaway Plan
is the best medicine for an aching
budget. 10% down will hold any
item in the store! Clear your mind
of holiday shopping bills.

FURNITURE
VILLAGE

‘Where you can feather you're
nest with a litle down”
Castlegar

Museums and pri-
vate companies for $77,000 to
cover the cost of this project.
Considerable research and
gathering of material has al-
ready taken place.

We are endeavoring to be
wise stewards of what you have
entrusted to us. Now we are
asking for an even greater
trust—a

— Give the society a $7,-
000 a year grant to cover ad-
vertising and insurance costs.

— Give the society a $4,-
500 per year grant to cover the
salary of a maintenance-
gardener. ,

Ifthe City of Castlegar will
assume responsibility for the
administrator’s salary of $14,-
000 per year, plus benefits, the
Canada Museums Corporation
will likely increase its core-
funding assistance grant. Thus,

in the on-going function of the

museum complex.

with projected revenue in-

creases, we would be in a
position to handle the three

Your in one of
the following will have direct
and lasting benefits for this
community:

— Make the administrator

items.

Our programs are at your
mercy. Please look favorably
upon our request.

this sort of thing is
doing, ultimately, to the intel-
lects of our people?

“How can a people main-
tain their collective dignity,
integrity and sense of fitness if
they can be so easily coerced
inlo desires for’ nonsense
things, status symbols, nothing
things, largely because the next
door neighbor has one, or some
third-rate cinema performer
does?”

Ed dialed another drink
desperately, “All right, so
maybe electric martini stirrers
are on the redundant side. But
it's what people want.”

“that’s what people are
taught to want. We must
reverse ourselves. We have
solved the problems of produc-
tion of abundance, now man
should settle down and take
stock of himself, work out his
path to his destiny, his. Ely-
sium,

“The overwhelming major-
ity of our sciéntists are working
either on methods of destruc:
Won, or the creation of new
products which our people do
not actually need or want.

“Instead, they should be
working upon the curing of
man’s ills, delving into the
secrets of the All-Mother,
plumbing the ocean's depths,
reaching out to the stars.”

Methinks we can now buy
an electric martini stirrer?

e 8 68
Smile :

Stargazer: A space agency
psychologist asked one of the
astronauts what he was think-
ing about as he. strapped
himself into his craft atop the
rocket which was to hurl him
into space.

“All I keep thinking,” he
replied” is that everything that
makes this thing go was
supplied by the lowest bidder."

eee

Political Insight: Eight ean-
didates, including all four in-
competents, are seeking the
four city council positions.

o 8 8

Dentists obit: “When on
this tomb you gaze with grav-
ity; Cheer up! I'm filling my last
cavity.”

e 8 8

The world today: A book
on how to be happy without
money costs $10.

Cleaning Lady, Aged 62
Becomes Radio Star

Miriam Blue, a 62-year-old
cleaning woman at radio station
KMOX in St. Louis, became an
instant success when Jack
Carney, the city's best-known
radio personality, decided to
put her on the air to offer
advice to the lovelorn.

Now called Miss Blue, the
ex-cleaning woman handles her
new job as efficiently and

expertly as she handled her ~

mops and brushes. Her unique
talent and uninhibited manner
of talking to the callers has
made the program one of the
best-rated in St. Louis.

‘= She explains how she got
started~in radio; “When I
thought Jack Carney had gone
off the air for commercials, I'd
rush in and get the papers and
the ashtrays, And he'd say,
‘Well, how are you, Miss
Miriam Blue?’ and I'd say,
“AIL is welll’ for a long
time, I didn't even know I was
on the air.”

Then Mr. Carney: asked
Miss Blue to participate in the
show. She left her cart, mops
and pails outside, doffed her
rubber gloves and started
talking over the microphone
regularly on Carney's four-hour
morning show to his 100,000
listeners.

- Says Miss Blue: “It was
fun, It wasn't anything planned.
He just got on the air and told
people to write Miss Blue. And
the next thing, letters started
coming in.”

Now she is billed as the
station's “family relations ex-
pert," and she appears twice a
week to answer calls and let-
ters, She is paid $40 a week for
two ten-minute shows, spon-
sored by an appliance maker.

‘The answers she gives to
those asking advice are both
uninhibited and often offbeat.
When a man called and said his
wife refused to tell him where
she went to work every day,
Miss Blue told him: “Sometimes
it's better to be in the dark than
to know what's going on.”

Whena woman complained --

that her husband was coming
home with cosmetics on his col-
lar, she told her: “Maybe it
wasn't another woman. He
might be wearing cosmetics

himself. Give him the benefit of
the doubt.”

Because of her show, a
loca! department store now
sells “All-l-] is well-1" T-shirts,
shirts. 7
Despite her fame, Miss
Blue still lives with the eldest of
her two daughters and two
grandchildren, and she con-
tinues to work as a cleaning
woman, i

When asked about her
success on radio, she says: “I'm
really surprised at all the fuss.
I'm still here every day doing
my work and going home.”

In her spare time, Miss
Blue spends timé’in Christian
Science activities, as she al-
ways did.

Give your fam
our ect. y
Sour
Cream.

WAU TIAIHUL COATT

GAR NEWS, Thursday, November 18, 1976
CASTLE! iy.

We call it .

“CANADA SOUTH”

Our Islands can be Your Islands.

LENIHAN

for
SCHOOL TRUSTEE
FOR AREA “J”
Vote Nov. 20th

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Barbecue Grills Spiral Staircase
Business Signs Pickup Headache
Headboards Porch Step Railings Racks

-ANV-IL--TERON: WORKS
now located at the Ferry on Broadwater Road
in Robson

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lawn & Patio Gates

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