r - WEDNESDAY, Report from Clarence Michiel Mr Bor, by Laren Duns, Gree 6 co THE RAIN OF 1892 IN) triricrm oes SNAKE CREEK GULCH : —_. ‘ ‘THE RAIN OF 1892 IN SNAKE CREEK GULCH Now Snake Creek Gutch was thehottost place on this earth, One year {t was so hot that all the thermometers broke, Snake Creek Gulch had rain aboutonce every three years, Now one year it got so hot everybody friend eggs outside on the sand, : And did ft ever rain! DECEMBER 18, 1968 stece tp te tae eterna AS Now this one year rain came, ET ALATATAR ND AID A AR A TN ert ee ee ee er Rue nar POAT FTPs Cele ee ae ee 2: King Fooowcee Soyendmcote, Met. [PAL Weld rights rinatredl. RIGHT, ‘THE GENERAL SARGE! HIMSELF 1S GOING TO INSPECT TODAY ZERO. L&T® REALLY SHOW HIAA WHAT A WELL- GROOMED BARRACKS WE HAVE’ Peete SE PHO HEL ‘Def “eorpadg eimens ery 5) | By Mort Walker & Dik Browne I SAW THAT, DITTO FLAGS TONS HOW COULD YOU DO SUCH 4 MEAN THING TO YOUR BABY SISTER 7 ae [Ir KIND ENOUGH To USE WARM WATER! © King Footures Syodicnts, tne. 190%. Warld sights reseed, . fleg, Mike fell, vou WOULDN'T LET Ay MARY? WHERE’s : ARCHIE HAVE A PHONE THE TELEPHONE 2? WELL....WE’LL SEE ABOUT FHAT £ had enough peanut brittle for a -But when it hit the ground it tuned to steam, That’s the year Bamoy’s steam Bath went broke. But it kept months and finally the ground cooled off, ' The little trickle of a creek soon became a rearing raining for three river, starting to flood the town, ., a The people of Snake Creek Gulchgatheredall the molasses . they could find, Then they dumped it in, then somebady threw in a bunch of peanuts. The river stopped dead when the molagsea hardened up, They saved the town from a flood and hundred years, oo Wally MacKay — Grade 7: THE TRAPLINE The wind whistled fierce through the trees and the lone trapper clung to his buckskin Jacket and shivered violently, Wolves howled in a distant snowladen thicket, gorging them. selves on caribou, - Mike, the trapper, inspected his last trap on the line ‘and turned, unsuccessful, towards the log cabin, then miles diss tani, silhouetted against the set. ting sun, ‘The traplines weren't trapping enough and Mike would have toget meat for the cold season, The next.day Mike rose with the dawn. On the line, tran after trap had been sprung, but the catch had been stolen, “‘Durned Varmits, them lobes”, Mike spat in the freshly fallen snow, . Mike’s snowshoes crunched on the snow as he pulled the other traps, He’d have to diga shele ter to keep himself warm, At the place where he had de. cided to make the igloo, he heard a pack of wolves chasing a carl. bou, As he turned to leave, the caribou bounded into the clear ing followed by the wolves, Some of the wolves went after Mike and Mike turned to face them, After five wolves had gone down from Mike’s shotgun he wielded the shotgun andhis spade as clubs, He picked up his axe and chopped off the head of one and lodged the axe between anode ther’s ribs, Fired and gashed down his Waiting for the fangs to slit his throat, Mike covered his face and chest with his arms. The wolves never came; there were no more to come, Thewole {ves had killed the caribou and without eating any, had turned ‘Tonhim, . Mike had had meat for the winter and the wolves wouldn't return to pester his traplines again, vs —— Distributed by King Features Syndicate, ~ Svatto’s LITTLE IODINE | MOTHER VOTED \ } THIS MORNING, I'M GOING I'M BRINGING YOU WITH ME TO IMPRESS ON YOU THE IMPORTANCE OF ONE'S VOTE! GOME PEOPLE NEGLECT THEIR DUTY AND GO ! NOT VOTE: THATS VERY WRONG! ay WHY, PAGDY MY one yore COULP VERY WELL DECIPE THIS VERY STAYE? AWAY FROMTHE POLLS WED HAVE ANARCHYS CRUCIAL ELECTION! wow! ‘YOU JUST STANP HERE ANP WATCH WHI GO IN THE VOTING B | [We pip ir! evecreo THe nexr PRESIPENT/ HURRAY FOR | \@ ~ MY DADPYL) br, ; NOISES Some Nights I hear noises that are frightful to the ear. And yet other nights J hear noises that are soft and melody like. But no matter. if it’s fright» ful, soft or melody like, It still, is called noise, Fred Sturby — Grade 7 PLANET BABY I landed on a planet that has never been heard of. It was 50 tiny I named it Baby, I got out of the rocket so F could explore Baby. Suddenly I realized that this wasamintature earth. Every thing was onestenth the size of earth. I felt ike a giant. I locked in a window of a store and found they ate the same kind of food we do, | I found the Clarence Michiel school and looked in a window where my class should be, I was startled when I found myself sitting there with most of my friends, At recess I asked my dupli- When I found out she was doing In school I decided to go to earth and see if I could do even batter than ever. Lucille Green, Grade 6 SPACE PROBE — After daya In apace Professor Dimwit got to the moon, When he got there he saw some thing in the atr, like the shape ofa cat. He knew it must be the cat star, Dimwit put an X tablet in his tank and started out for the cat star, Hours later Dimwit ar- rived at the cat star, ° Dimwit askedla cat to see where the dog star was, the cats. said that. [t was millions and millions of miles away, So. Dimwit put another. X tablet in his tank and started for the dog star, ; ; A-year later professor Dimwit arrived at a planet that looked like the dog star. But when he got there he found out it was a ‘fox star, So he put another X tablet in his tank, He found put he hed only 2 X tablets ef, - . “ 4 Then he arrived at the dog star, He asked a dog to see if he had seen. George he sald that he was staying at a hotel called the Poodle... |, oo one <.. Later. George and Professor ‘Dimwit were’on their way home, jtwo. years later they both ware the dark blue sky; with the stars Jamie Radelet— Grade? | cate how she was doing in school, |- home, . Bd ae Fo! Philip Webb — Grade 4]: : . ee oe abe al "HAUNTED NIGHTS. |. 1, Jove to go out at night and), Msten to the owls, and look up at}: : - = shining so brightly. They alt look’ Hke fairies. oo One night when I was out, I saw a red flash across the sky. I didn’t get all jumpy over St because it was only a shooting star. The next night I went out, I was sitting on the steps outside in the back yard. I heard foot. Steps behind me but couldn’t see aything, I knew ft wasn’t anybody in the house because they The next night the same thing happened, steps and something came up bee hind me. I was too stunned to turn around. But then it went away, I went straight into the house, The next day in town I heard a murderer had escaped from jail a few nights ago, They said he was very cruel and was armed. He might kill anybody for money, so keep your doora bolted . 1 wasn't scared so I went out that night, Again I heard somes one behind ma, ‘I didn’t dare move, Every step was g louder and what ever it- was, It was coming closer, I took.a glance behind me but couldn’t see anything, I jumped wp, grabbed a vase and turned around, The man was coming closertome, He had the exact deseription of the man that, escaped from jail. I wondered if he had a gun, Then he went to hit me but I ducked and then turned and hit him over the head with the vase, He felt to the floor, I quickly ran and phoned the police, They. cameand gave me a reward of $500.00, Boy, was that a nice Xmas! Shelley ee : Grade 7 -. ... COLDS... « : A cold’a‘a nasty th * It-realty, really: : And when you go outside, Ig really where it starts. Debbie Bryson — Grade 7 CHRISTMAS : Christmas is here again! Fun with relatives and old folks, De. liclous turkey and candy sitting waiting tobe eaten. The glittering Christmas tree standing in the comer of the room. Laughing children and old folk await for Presents to be opened! Paper crumpled up on the clean floor. Shouting children race around the house. Parents and old folk talk of the good old Christmases they had when they were young, The candles in the window aro lighted and the fire in the fireplace is burning brightly, The supper is steaming, and mother and grand. ma are laughing in the kitchen, The small ones are sitting, eagerly waiting for the turkey, Father and grand-dad are talking quietly, Soon the dinner comes and everyone Is eating eagerly, Soon it is over and Mother and Grandma go into the kitchen, Fa- ther and Grandedad setile down and have a smoke, The little ones play with thelr new toys, The clock strikes 12 and Christmas is over for another year! ° MERRY CHRISTMAS ALL! Mattle Vandenboer — Grade 7 ‘MY BOXING CAREER I first started boxing when I was seven years old, The only ‘reason why I started was because I was too young for hockey, foote ball, baseball, ete, . { trained like the dickens, and soon I was good enough to go to Vancouver, T fought at the welght of 50 Jbs, I was under weight so I was moved up to the 55 Ib, class, I won two out of the three fights I had, winning three tro. phies, When I came back one of the boxers had an accident so we had to put on an exhibition fight to raise some money for tha family, 1 was picked to fight so hed to train, I fought Danny Crawford who beat me, After that fight wasi over EF started training for ano« ther fight in Vancouver, I went down with two ‘others guys, I fought Tommy McDonald whom I beat. Then I quit for two years, When I came back I had a fight lined up with Joay Chavard of Edmonton, - Two of us went down and David “the 70 pounder that came with me’? loat his fight wine ning a twelve dollar metal while. T won my fight and wona eighteen dollar gold metal plus I hold the 80 lb. champfonship title for-all across Western Canada, ==. (. . + Gerry Dempster — Grade 7 ‘THE HAUNTED HOUSE _.. “Creakl! pe “Thia‘place ig, spooky, do we have: to’ stay here all night!” had gone out Christmas shopping, |" I was sitting on the |. One day my sister baked-a cake. Ht sagged in the middle and was puffed up at the sides, T tried to keep a straight face but T burst out laughing. “The hot alr blew it up,” “Be quiet! I'll get the last lavgh yet,’ she raged and went up to her room, : : The next day there was to be a baking contest, The contest ante had to bake the cake right at the contast, Iwas one of the contestants, Behind my back, my sister carried out a devilish prank. She put darkened lemon juice into the vinegar boitle, bake ing soda into the baking powder THE LAST LAUGH.” box and sugar into the salt shak= er.. That way: my cake would explode and haveahorribletaste! - At the contest I was beaming with pleasure, J was. sure I could win the contest. I blended together the mixed ingredients and popped my caké into the oven, Ali of a sudden, in front of all the people, “‘Kar Boom!" cama. out of my oven, - Smoke poured. . out of the exploded cake, Iturned pure red. ‘ -Above the din I heardmy sister laughing her head off, ~*T told you, I told you,’? she chanted, ‘TI got the last laugh,” Lauren Dubeau, Grade 6 questioned Patsy, ‘Yea, if we want to be in the club”? 5 | Patsy was a tall slender'per- don and Jenny short and plump, “Hoy, Patsy, look at this room,” They entered what used to bo the living room but was now covered with dust and cobwebs. “This place must have been beautiful before!" . ‘Hey, Patsy, lock at these rooms up herel*’ yelled Jenny as she bounded up the stairs, . > “Look at these-reome here!” rexclaimed Patsy, it’s zota double, and a aaa ‘bed “anid here,” “Beek! Thud, the closet door Jay open and on the floor was the rotted corse of some less fortunate person, “Fm not staying Hore for ano ther minute!”’ She raced out the door and down the stairs, “Wait for me,’ yelled Patsy who was only a jump behind her, Sherrie Hamer --Grade 7 TOMAHAWK ° “Tell usa story, Bill,” pleaded the children, ; “Well, okay?" drawled Bill, One day in Tomahawks camp there began to be trouble, Now Tomahawk was sixteen feet tall and strong as fifteen bulls, two whales’ and ten elephants, Toma= haw could pull a ten ton rock out of the ground aa easy as picking flowers. ‘ . Now there. was a young wa rior who alse was quite strong and this young warrior challeng- ed Tomahawk to battle, Toma. haw agreed to do battle. but nat the way the young warrior want- ed it, os Tomahawk wanted to do feats of strength and things like that, He didn’t want to do battle be. cause he was afraid he might hu: the warrior, os Tho first feat they had to do was riy, Let's. sleep Wto aft a 20ton rock and walk with it for fifteen feet, Toma- hawk lifted.this rock and walk~ ed with it 20 feet.. The warrior only walked five feet with the rock, . ot The second feat was to throw a tomahawk onto a two-feet thick tree, Tomahawk threw thetoma- hawk. with such force that, the tomahawk went right through the tree, The warrior threw the tomahawk and the tomahawk went. only a little way into the tree. The warrlor became fed up bee cause he was always ‘losing and challenged Tomahawk to a knife- to-knife - batile, . Tomahawk agreed. They both got out a knife and the battie started, The knives were two feet long. Toma= hawk only grazed the warrior; and the warrior fell te the ground. today The warrlor begged for mercy, and Thomahawk. let him go free, And once again Tomhawk’s camp was peaceful, o _ Gurminder ‘Singh, Grade 7 ..°, THEMIBSTAKE George. was shooting between two'shooting stars onthe path to the moon, He was,an absent minded dog s¢. he didn't know he was on the. wrong track,. Professor Dimwit was on’ the wrong track too, Ha'was on the |). track to Sinils, Eve: Was muddled up..." Meanwhile George wae. having problema, ‘His X tablet. was wearliig ‘out,.{t was: Fy getting hot, and hig. sult- was: ling apart, i. George didn'tknow. ing 2 what to do. Dimwit was having troubles too, He was pretty well near the dog star and all thadogs were chasing -him and tearing his pants apart, Some of George's: sult fell apart, Hé was floating away from the moon and so was Dimwit, Then PLOP! Down, Down, Down. They were onearth, It was so light comparing it tothe moon it was horrible, but they soon got used to ft. Aftex Dimwit scolded George, they never wanted to go there again. Pat Nowlk — Grade 4 CLIMBING . ne Up-the mountainthe scoutspere sistently ‘climbed,’ Some hud 40. pound packs on thelr backs as they slowly moved up to. where they were to camp, Sore thought the steep inclining trail wasnever ending until the master scouted . an area to camp, He gave the sige . nal and the boys almost-running down to a bushy creed side area where they were: to camp. Auto. ‘matically the boys swung intoact. ion chopping and gathering what ever good. wood we couhd find, Then erecting a lean-to out of wood poles‘and a sheet of plastic over the roof. By elght o’clogk the seventeen of us had had supper and tiredly hit the sack. Next day wé continued on our Journey up the steep incline of the mountain, - We soon reached - an old camping spot where some. one had erected a log sided, plastic roofed shelter. Fairly soon we Were in 8 inches ofsnow and nearing the top, By the time we got to the top we found that it was'a three hour hike from our camp to the scenic view of the top. . ‘ . Robert Owens ~ Grade 7 MOTORCYCLES “Boy, I like that hot new motor. cycle,” said Fred, ‘So hot it ‘stings, Ow," remarked. Greg. | "Boy, twoeon-the-floor, 350 horsepower, cool. seat'-and a groovy 3 feet from the handle . bars,” I said, ‘ . ; *"¥eh, even though I don’t have 1,500 clams but maybe I canpick . them off.of Popsy,’’ Greg said. **¥eh, I would have the dough if I hadn’t got thrown in that. dirty Can,” Fred remarked, : “Boy, that was a good rumble we made downtown,"" I said,” “That. cop car sure tumedover easy,” Greg laughed. “That motoreyelé Is coo! but 1 . don’t’ have the berries for it,’ Fred sald.) 4 . Monte Niver— Grade? HIPPIES want .. The world we lyé,in‘todayis — full of poverty, famine’and war,:. But among all of: these: things’: there is something 70 one seems. to care much about: :My ‘subject. :: is‘ hippies, -I feel“the-teens of” ; are neglected by our government, They should be able | to earn a living ‘and then maybe - they could afford to get a hair. cut, and some: decent clothes, The government Says the teen agers today ‘behave badly but I. | aera “| thinks this is only, because thelr "D | parents kick them out ofthe house. and they "have nothing todo but (z go bad, Ifeel this ‘matter should 2 betakencafe'of, 9° ° | g “__Debble Bryson Grade? - _ WON AWARD. "John Marley.: won’ tha Best. . Actor Award atthe Venice Film Festival for his..xole In'the fllm * FAC CB epee *. ZARGE WORKFORCE" * | last 75 yenrgs- = "