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PILL DUNFORD of the Vancouver Province in his folksy column "Talk of the Town" writes:
Congrats ! September marked fbe flrat birthday that Intmesttng' and colorful local publication, "CMnatowiif" Chinese Canadian News Magazine.
CITY SCENE—Lingerie departmmt of a downtown department stwe daring: a sale of rattier swank panties. A pretty Chinese girl was having trouble denting and eventually asked If she ooaU use Hie ^ihone to dheok with. • higher authaitty. She dialed a number and there followed a crackling1 stream of Chinese. And then abe iiaused and added' in EngUgh^ "and mey*Te the CUTEST things!"
Jack Scott of the Vancouver fh||^; writing iij^his daily column "Our Town" about some of the personalities whom he met during his recent junket to the Caribou:
I had to Hkry awsy from the genial old gentlemen because I had a date with a beer and Ike Sing.
Ike is 40f Chinese, of course, and "Ike^' is jiist a nickname. His real mune is Isaac.
Ike is a sort of one-man Chamber of Ckmnmeree for the Anahim I^ake district 2Wodd miles to the west on Hie road to Bella Coola. He runs Hie post office and g<j|0ral store there and comes into Williams Lake about dveftf two weeks In a laAg truck for his sup-
Must be wonderful country—4te plateau country you may have read
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about in Hobson's "Grass Beyond the Mountains^—^utd I wm sorry I could not accept Ifce^s Imitotlon to go uf there and slay game*.
But whai interests me most about Ike is how he came to settle down in this unykely spot.
"I used to be one of tlia world's un-hapiilest taeUf" Ike tcdd me. 4tI worked in a fi8h-and-chlp shop at English Bay. Every maaenhkg I would go to the fish-and-ehip shop and pot on my uipm and stand tliere im^iiig fish-aoid-difpft and wondering why I was born. Was that all fiiefe was for me to ocmtrllnite —flsh and dhips? I used to think that way.
**Well, a friend of mine Invited me on a taesMng trip and we went to Anahim by way of Bella Coola. It wm ^i-radflw couttry. People Mved Hiere 79 or 80 years behind tM^f life. Some-ttdng came over me. I just realized, suddenly^ 'I belong liere. I can be a part of the growth d tills piaoe.'
"I never made fish Mid <Mps again*"
And from Dorotliy KilgaUen of the Vancouver News Herald whose "Names on Parade" column last week spotlighted the:
^Cotest laundry owner in UdA vfeiiir Ity: P. Wee, who rans a Cl^nese shirt-and-sheet dnnkeiy In Kooklyn*"
Jack Wassermaiiy the Vancouver Sun's self-styled "poor man's Walter Winchell," in his column "About Now" last week passed along this tip:
"Bi^ Gil" McLaughlin, well known ndd^Qwn clubman, has takra, over tte managemment of Albert Kwanfs "Smil-in, Buddha*"
Want to know the best way of ordering Chinese food? Lend an ear to Penny Wise, the Vancouver Sun's versatile ^topi^ig Guide.
"Speaking: of Chinese food, a Chinese gal told me tite other day lliat when you go to Chinatown to eat (wMdi I hope you often do) you would be smart not to order certain dishes at certain prices from menu, but to lay $5 down and ask for $5 worlh of Cft&iese food. You can specify If you'd prefer beef or chicken or pork, but leave the rest up to the waiter and the cook. That live dollar billy by the way, would give live people a good meal. A gal I know puts her $1 on ttkB line and gets all she wicdies,"
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CHINATOWN, October 3, 1954