Thursday, December 28, 1954,

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tHE TRIBUNE, WILLIAMS LAEE, B.6.

TATLAYOKO NEWS

Weather Cuts Attendance At Concert

The Christmas Concert held in the
new pre-fab school December 16th
found only the valley folk in attend-
ance. None of our neighbors from
West Branch or Tatla Lake were
present due to weather conditions.

Days of preparation went into the
unusual cut-outs and decorations
that adorned the room, and the chil-
dren’s costumes. Plays and recita-
tions were presented with happy self-
assurance by the seventeen pupils.
Santa arrived on schedule, distribut-
ing gifts and bags of treats among
the wide-eyed younger generation
while cakes and sandwiches were
available to all the older folk.

The gathering dispersed around
1 a.m. ona very frosty morning.

THE DANCE at Kleena Kleene
Lodge, held in honour of Mr. W. A.
B. Paul, Government Telégraph op-
erator recently retired, would have
been well attended by Tatlayoko folk
if we had been able to get up the
Parks hill. At 11 p.m., with chains
torn, brake lines broken and the top
still beyond reach, we were forced
to return home.

OLD MAN WINTER, coupled with
the breakdown of Joes “Cat”, put an
abrupt end to the progress the Public
Works Department was making in
here this month. Three gravel trucks
operated by Lee Butler, Carl
and Jimmy McKay kept the
busy loading, and shovel oy
Fred March busy spreading gravel

down the length of the hill to the
river bridge near the new school.

Work will be resumed in the
spring. Meanwhile, the eight inches
of snow we have makes good surfac-
ing. Scraped and packed into the ruts
and holes, we now have the best road
we've had since last winter.

MISS RYDER took the out-going
stage to Vancouver for Christmas.

MARY. and KEN HAYNES and
small son Stephen spent two weeks
at the coast, returning home last
week with a 11 ton Chev truck.
NEIGHBORS who were business
sitors to Williams Lake last week
included: H. McGhee, Joe Schuk,
Ken and Harry Haynes, Gerry and
All Bracewell,

“CHUCK” MORRIS, provincial
vet, was in early this month vacein-
aling heifer calves against Bangs
disease. Heyexpects to be back in
Janua to do the rest.

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HERB - PRANK

H. J. Gardner & Sons Ltd:

and Staff

home at Christmas and abide with you
all through the year...This is our ,
warm Holiday wish for you and yours.

- WILF - RAMSAY

t
Flay the joys of the Season
and all its friendly cheer brighten your

JF, 4. THING of beauty is a joy

forever, a good idea is a good
idea for a reasonable length of time.
at least. And hundreds of thousands
of dollars are spent annually by
hundreds of thousands of people
who think collegiate football on
New Year’s Day is a good idea.

The fabulous Rose Bowl game
started out as a supplement to the
Tournament of Roses when the first
east-west game was played on Jan.
uary 1, 1902. Of course, it might
have been a better idea—from the
California point of view—if the
barnstorming University of Mich-
igan had not barnstormed to a 49
to 0 victory over Stanford.

This might have had something
to do with substituting chariot races

_ for the football’ game in 1903.

Originally run with amateur driv-
ers, the chariot races became pro.
fessional affairs after the first few
years, and the public lost interest.
The year 1916 brought a return to
collegiate football via a contest in
which Washington state defeated
Brown university.

Prior to dedication of the Rose
Bowl in Arroyo Seco, the games
were played in Tournament Park.
{n 1923, the bowl in Arroyo Seco
was dedicated with an original seat-
ing capacity of 85,000. Recent en-
largement made it possible for a
paid attendance of 11,234 in 1949

The tremendous success of the
‘Rose Bowl classic has ‘mush:
roomed” various ‘Bow!’ games from
coast to coast. Among the many,
there are the Orange Bowl, the Sun
Bowl, the Sugar Bowl, the ‘Gater
Bowl, Hawaii’s Pineapple Bowl, and
everr Alaska’s Ice Bowl.

All these ‘Bowl’ games are rapid.
\y becoming a great American New
Year’s tradition, but the daddy of
them-all, the Rose Bow] game, con-
tinues to be the outstanding colle-
giate sporting event of the season

New Years and
Superstition Go

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SID PIGEON

Christmas Greeting

to Our Wonderful Community

«+ We’d like to shake the hand of every
ane of you. We'd like to wish you all
a personal Merry Christmas. Bur, please

take the thought for the

our sincere good wishes for Health,

Happiness and Prosperity now and always!

from

SHELL OIL - PIGEON’S TRANSFER

- HARRY°CURTIS -

act and accept

IAN BLUE

‘Hand in Hand

Mankind has always been super-
stitious about New Years.

In olden times families south a .
glimpse into the future by the
“dipping” custom. The head of
the family, with his eyes closed,
opened the family Bible and in-
dicated a passage with his finger;
the text, solemnly read and inter.
preted was indictive of the luck—
good or bad—that was in store for
them.

Probably one of the most wide
spread superstitions concerned the
first person to cross the threshold
on New Year’s morning. Women
and light-haired men were con
sidered unlucky, as where people
who walked pigeon-toed.

In some villages, the supersti
tion was taken so seriously that =
dark-haired man was hired to be
the first-footer. Going from house

+ to house, he would be the first
person to cross the threshold, thus
preserving the good fortune of the
community.

Anglo-Saxons, believing that
something might happen when the
New Year occurred often climbed
upon the roof on New Year’s eve
so as to have a good view of any
such event.

We moderns make as much noise
as possible, presumably because
our primitive ancestors believed
that noise would keep evil influ.
ences at a distance.

New Year in France

Day Par Excellence

January 1, la jour de la bonne
annee, is the day par excellence in
France.

It is the day of gift-giving and
ot ringing doorbells. Besides
friends who come to present gifts,
tradespeople are accustomed to
call to offer compliments of the
day and receive, in turn, small
sums of money.

The atmosphere is full of joy
vand gaiety and hospitality. Gifts
are proudly displayed and callers
come and go amid many compli-
ments and the toasting of every-
one’s health.

Jour de I’an has its serious side,
too. Many families visit the graves
of departed members, sizice this
day is considered an appropriate
time to remember the dead as well

The churches generally are
crowded on New Year’s Eve, which
is also the Vigil of St. Sylvester,
an early pontiff and father of the
Church. In various rural commu-
nities, the cattle are driven to the
oor of the village church where
they are blessed by the priest who
also says Mass for their protection
during the New Year.

a rich abundance of health,

happinese and contentment.
Rekerts
Curing Piaat

Cc. & E. ROBERTS

GF ‘ Be
<0 all our friends and neighbors
we send our sincerest wishes for a joyful,

cheerful, healthful Holiday Season.

Lake Hardware
Lta.

Central Plumbing & Heating

Jack and George Halfnights

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