CRON Re Sy A lot of ‘strange calls by Len Harrington You’ve heard about people with phone numbers similar to that of a thriving business, haven’t you? There's always some poor individual whose number is one digit either way from a com- pany getting hundreds of daily phone calls. The person suffers constantly from ‘‘wrong number’’ or “errant’’ calls. Think about situations that could arise, Suppose a funeral home and a car repair shop had similar numbers. Suppose a women phoned the wrong one to make a funeral arrange- ment... “Hello, Joe’s Body Shop. If we can’t repair. them, we'll buy the parts.”” “Oh my goodness, what a strange way to answer the phone. I’ve a good mind to call your competitor.”’ “Look lady, I don’t write the blurb. The boss says that’s the way I got- ta answer. If you wanna go to our competitor, go ahead. Just remember, he charges twice as much,’’ . “Well, I don’t want to pay too much.”’ “Yeah, well what’s wrong with the old wreck.’’ ‘Gracious you’re crude. The ‘old wreck’ as you say is dead.”’ ‘“‘Lady, if its juice you want to get it started, call Bourgoin, Brian Cox, Linc Dougan, Kelly Gingles, Neil Irwin, Terrace silver-medal winners The Terrace All Seasons Pup Reps placed second at their 11th annual minor hockey tournament during the holiday braak. The boys are Shane Schurdevin, Jonathan Shepherd, Jason Waldron, Joseph Wells, Chad Wilson, Mark De Jong, coaches are Tom Turner, Brian Shaw and Bruce Cameron. eee ee Dawson Kelln, Dennis McCarron, Christopher McLellan, Duncan Nixon, Travis Robble Larmour and Todd Waldron. The Len’s Pen Macs down at Fifth and Main.”’ ‘‘Young man, it was too much juice that led to this phone call.’’ ‘‘Well, what shape is the body in? Any wrin- kles you want straighten- ed out?’’ ‘‘That would be nice. Actually only the head wrinkles would show,”’ ‘*Look, ma’am, when we fix up a body we do all the wrinkles. We even replace old parts with new ones. Has it any dents?” “Not that I’ve notic- ed.’’ ‘*How’s the bearing.” ‘‘They mever were much good. We're childless, you know.’’ **So what! Look, bet- ter bring it down here. I’ll put it on the hoist and check it over from top to bottom. I'll even drain the crankcase free of charge.’’ “Alright. But can’t you send__the... er... wagon to get him?”’ THUMP ‘Lady, lady, hello, hello. Are you okay? ... Huh! Sounds like she fainted. Geez we sure get a lot of strange phone calls since we changed our number, That’s the third one passing out to- day.” Men’s basketball stats Ev’s Clippers and Skeena Hotel posted vic- tories as the Terrace Men’s Basketball League opened up the second half of the season last Tuesday. Ev’s squeezed out an 88-87 win over Kluss and Sons behind Richard Klein's 32-point effort. Doug McKay chipped Terrace in with 16. Doug Wilson with 18 and Simon Dodd with 17 topped the losers. Skeena downed All Seasons 73-54 in the se- cond game of the night. Mike Hogg had 19 and Skier places first Terrace’s Michelle Johnson is off to a great start in the B.C. ski season. She posted a first-place finish in the Super ‘G‘ Race on Jan. 4 weekend in B.C. Cup racing at Troll Mountain in Quesnel. The Super ‘G‘ Race is a cross between giant slalom and downhill. Phil Letham 14, to pace Skeena, while it was Jim Kellar with 20 and Mar- cus Klein with 15 for All Seasons, Thursday night action saw Ev’s win another tight one, 75-69 over Skeena Hotel. Richard Klein had 21 for the winners while Mike Hogg poured in 34 points for the losers. In the other game, All Seasons edged out Kluss and Sons 78-76. All Seasons got 28 points from Kim Kellar and 16 from Marcus Klein. It was Andy Ruygrok with 23 and Mark Sarich with 16 for Kluss. _ ; Terrace Co-operative Association Catering to the needs of Sportsmen in Fishing @ Camping ®@ Hunting @ Recreation | \_by Only a couple weeks before graduating from high school In Smithers, | went on an overnight fishing trip with a couple friends — something to do before we went our separate ways. The two guys | had with me were Kirk Linley and Junior Something- orother. Junior was a Rotary ex- change student from Brazil — his full name was about four feet long and unpronounceable so everyone called him “Junior”. We took Dad's pickup and my canoe to Parrot lake south of Houston — very near the Swiss Fire of a couple years ago. We paddled to the far end of the lake where the fishing is best and set up our tent at the edge of the lake. Junior had never done this type of thing before so he was as ex- clted as a little kid upon catching his first rainbow trout. We had fish for supper as we Set- tled into camp late that evening at the end of the long summer day. My tent that had housed three boys a few years before seemed to have shrunk — the three of us didn't have room to all sleep on our backs. We squished and laughed about the sliliness of it, but proceeded to go to sleep. After waking up several times because of the cramped con- ditions, however, | wiggled out of the tent and went fishing with the sky beginning to hint of the day ahead. The lake had tiny ripples radiating from the corner where the creek came In, and a light mist was rising from the surface — an occa- sional loon call greeted me as ! ‘set up my fishing gear. Alone in the canoe | was trolling a lure with the rod held between my lags, and my fly line was trolling out the other side with the rod wedged under the seat. | ran Into difficulty acouple times with a fish on each line, and | lost far more fish than | brought In. About 6 or 7 a.m. with no signs of life from the tent yet, | went in to Start breakfast. Kirk and Junior woke at the sound of wood splitting for the fire and they stumbled out shortly thereafter. | told them I'd been up for three hours already and had my limit of trout In the canoe. Neither of them believed me and there was nothing | could say to convince them because | had simply added my catch to those from the night before. To this day they don't realize they missed out on some of the best fishing I've had anywhere. by Ted Widen 4617 Grelg Ave. 635-6347 v, @ 37 tac