Thursday, July 23, 1953.

THE TRIBUNE, WILLIAMS LAKE, B.C.

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Fishing Story
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A real fishy story appeared in the
Summerland Review last week that,
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The story_goes that a certain ar-! As the fisherman pulled in the re-
dent fisherman and his brother-is-| ™ainder of the line, a good-sized fish
law were out trying their luck with Was caught on the hook, so the net
the fish one Sunday-morning when! result was tworfish on one line. |
the latter felt a-tug on his line. He! Whether this story is true or false,
pulled in the line and there, just it is still quite a line.

himself in tle line with a half-hitch
around his head and jaw. The battler
was snagged more’surely than if it
had been hooked on the finest of
| gear.

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Girl In Return From Coronation Trip —

The experience of a lifetime end-
ed last week for pretty Alice Fraser,
li-year-old| Williams Lake High
School student, when she returned
from a month’s tour of England,
Scotland, Ireland, Wales and France.
She was one of the fifty teen-age
Canadian girls who were picked for
the trip financed annually by indus-
trialist W. Garfield Weston.

Daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Hugh
Fraser of 150 Mile House, Alice was
still feeling somewhat confused
about the trip when interviewed this
week. “We saw so much in such a
short time that it will take me a few
weeks to get it all straightened out,”
she smiled.

The girls arose between 6:30 and
7:30 every morning and never went
to bed before 12 p.m. every day. “We
had to be in top physical condition
before we left, to be able to stand
the packed itinerary,” Alice remark-
ed.

Sitting on the chesterfield in her
parents’ home surrounded by guide
books, Alice tried to give this re-
porter a brief story of her trip, and
two hours later seemed to have only
scratched the surface,

START OF TRIP _

Leaving here May 16th on the first
leg of her trip Alice ran into a small
mishap when the plane was delayed
at Quesnel. Instead of boarding the
train at Vancouver that evening, she
was forced to wait at Kamloops-when
the train came through the next
morning. The girls were picked up
all across Canada, and had a special
coach for their use from Edmonton
to Montreal.

At Montreal they stayed at Royal
Victoria College of McGill University
until they sailed on the Empress of
France May 22nd.

. HOME FROM TOUR

Photo by Blackwell’s

The crossing proved to be quite
rough, with many of the girls sick.
Those that were not sick, like Alice,
had a Wonderfpl time attending
dances, shows and playing games.
ENGLAND

On Friday, May 29th, they docked
at Liverpool which Alice remembers
as a city of narrow streets, old build-
ings and, miles of chimney pots. The
girls entrained immediately for Lon-
don, passing through English coun-
tryside which impressed Alice with
its neatness, and the numerous small
towns with their rows of red brick
houses.

At London they were met by report-
ers and photographers, and the two
busses that were to convey them on
their tour throughout England,

The group stayed at Caversham, a
Salvation Army hostel forty miles
from London, and there met the fifty

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British girls who would be touring
Canada.

The itinerary for the next few
days included a visit to Runnymede,
scene of the signing of the Magna

Carta; and to Madame Tussaud’s,
famous waxworks museum, where
two French-Canadian girls in the

y unveiled the figures of Rt. Hon.
Vincent Massey and Louis St. Lau-
rent. Alice described the figures as
“wonderful, very lifelike, from a
distance, but you could tell they
were not real when you got close.”

CORONATION

June 2nd was the most exciting
day, with the girls getting up at
4:30 for the drive to London and
the Coronation. At 8 a.m. they were
seated in their specially constructed
stand on Oxford Street whieh boast-
ed a dining room and restrooms un-
derneath. Six television sets were
mounted on the front of the stands
for entertainment during the long
wait, and to view the solemn cere-
mony in the Abbey. Other TV-sets
were placed in the dining room as
well.

The fifty British girls, dressed in
red blazers were seated so that they
spelled out E-R against the dark biue
suits of the Canadian girls. At times
they entertained the waiting throngs
with Canadian songs.

Alice did not get a very good view
of the Queen, and seems chiefly im-
pressed with the beauty of the royal
coach. “It was simply marvelous,
beautiful beyond deseription, and
far bigger than I expected,” she said.
“And, of course, we went wild when
the Mounties went by,” she added.

.|MORE OF ENGLAND

‘The next twelve days were taken
up with visits to Stoke Poges, home
of the poet Thomas Gray; Eton Col-
lege; Windsor Castle which Alice de-
scribes as “‘very old, musty and dark.”’
It was here that she saw the chang-
ing of the guard and exchanged auto-
graphs with other visitors who turn-
ed out to be King Ashanti of the Gold
Coast and his son, and a princess
from Egypt.

She was intrigued with the
Queen’s Doll House which was pre-
sented to Queen Mary in 1924. It is
being added to each year, and now
boasts a tiny 1’ television screen
which really works, as does every-
thing in the castle . .

At Epson Downs, during the run-
ning of the famous Derby, Alice was
very excited at winning 35 shillings
when Pinza, a 4-1 favorite, romped
home in first place.

They saw the Tower of London,
Houses of Parliament and St. Paul’s
Cathedral, and attended a reception
at Canada House.

On the lighter side, they attended
a performance of the London Sym-
phony Orchestra, a film “Scott of
the Antarctic,” and the ballet “Swan
Lake” at the Royal Opera House,
not to mention innumerable lunches,
dinners and dances.

Before leaving for Paris they stayed
four days at the seaside resort of
Brighton.

FRANCE

Like so many other visitors, Alice
fell in love with Paris. ‘‘I would love
to go back there,” she said, “ii is a
beautiful, facsinating city and you
can just feel the excitement in the
air.” She found a marked contrast in
the old musty historic spots of Lon-
don to the white stone buildings of
Paris. ,

“Except for the Coronation, I was
impressed most by our visit to Di-
eppe. It will always stand out in my
mind,” says Alice. There the girls
placed a wreath at the Canadian War
Memorial.

ENGLAND AGAIN

Back ii England, the group visit-
ed Coventry; Westerham (General
Wolfe's birthplace); and Stratford-
on-Avon (Shakespeare’s birthplace)
and attended a performance of the
“Taming of the Shrew.”

Travelling to the north of Eng-
and, the girls stayed at Harrogate
and visited Harewood House, resi-
dence of H.R.H. The Princess Royal,
who conducted them personally. on
their tour. ‘‘That was when we learn-
ed to curtsey,” remarked -Alice.
SCOTLAND

On June 24th they entrained for
Edinburgh and took up residence at
Peebles Hydro, a famous resort.
Their visit included tours of Edin-
burgh Castle, and “Abbotsford,”
home of Sir Walter Scott.

Of the countries she visited, Alice
loved Scotland best. She found the
England and France with its smail
neat farms too “closed in,” and liked
the open spaces, baré hills and oc-
easional glimpses of old thatched
cottages in Scotland. “The country-

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1:00 p.m.

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PETE BARKER, OWNER