A time awaits each one of us—as eternal as the sunrise and as

inevitable as the twi- |

light that ends the day. And ‘on the pathway between the beginning and the end are the emotions from which a. writer constructs © his

stories, knowing a sec-.

ret denied most. people. It is a simple thing... just. the knowledge that

all emotions are mean- 7

ingless unless. shared. |

a So, - for those . who ‘have followed Missus MacTaggart and Old Mac; the Littel Dog

«and the Old Cat; Pete‘ and - Hardhat—I ask you to join me and to.understand, while

- Jw ite the ‘175th story. From the Back Porch..

Because it is the hardest of all to write. It is, you see, the

last and most final of human

emotions. 2 2 8.

We wus settin’ arount the campfire, me an Pete and Hardhat, an it wus: purty speshul. —

The stars, wus 5 hangin’ "like diamonds an Pete ses ain’t it wunderful, wen you think

they is. gonna be there. fer ;

Eternity?

i asts him how long he. ‘ figgers that will be, the way

the Guv’mint is handling things an Pete ses he don't ritely know, but it shud be a helluva long time.

We put out the fire and went into the tent an when.1 took a last look, they wus still there an it gave me a sorta queer feeling.

It wus a-.cupple hours before dawn when I riz up frum téssin’. an turnin’ an” stirred sum life back inter the.

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fire. There wus a_mist risin

frum the lake and ‘I throwd

sum pitch pine on the fire.

Sudden ‘like, « the mist cleared and this Feller wus standin’ there. He ses he figgers we got sum trubbles an I ses you mite say that.

He asts how cum? an I ses we has set arount campfires fer forty yeres or so—but this

-one is rele speshul.

How cum? He ses.

_ Becus it’s the last one, 1 ses. ;

We set sorta . quiet like fer “

a spell, jest watchin’ the. sparks frum the pitch pine | float up an then twinkic out.

Time has run out fer one of .. us, I ses, jest like one of them .

sparks, so I asts Him about —

them Elysium Fi elds, becus —

they i is worryin’ me sum.

‘He ses He is is sorta . familiar : with the Fields, becus they.

cum under His departmint; an He asts me wot. the trubble is.

Credit unions | win customers:

“In a blast of aggressive competition, the British Co- lumbia credit union move- ment is going after savings accounts in a way that is shaking up the chartered banks. If CUs elsewhere in Canada do likewise, many traditional credit and savings patterns could be .in for substantial rearrangement, writes The Financial Post’s

John Schreiner from Vancow- |

‘ver. . oo

With a pair of savings accounts now being promot- ed, ‘the varipus CUs. are doing well at pulling in "B.C.'s customers. The come- on:

‘© Personal - chequing —ac- counts that pay generous monthly interest, something . new this year. with several of the individual credit unions.

“e Nonchequing savings ac:,”

- counts on which interest is ° calculated on minimum daily | ‘balances ~ and which have.

favs si bei A ae a us ela shi na 3 hb dns. Nivel MARA Mista ae

- been offered by major B.C. credit unions at least for a.

decade - ‘are petting a big advertising push.

This is, in good: part, a response :: to a move this spring by Bank of British Columbia, which introduced a comparable account with a strong advertising campaign using actor Lorne Greene on television and in print.

Some bankers, when they

“are willing to discuss the |

credit union push at all, suggest that these necar- -bankers are trying to buitd the broadest possible depos

tor base before the Bank mr Ac is amended. —

Not so, says George May,

general manager -of, B.C.

Central Credit’ Union, the

provincial body that coordin- ates credit union services.

The credit. unions, he says, . are building a capital base to =o meet the needs of members os

through the mid- 1980s.

tes. at

can figger they is jest miles of. green grass with medbbe a~

wile—wich is a helluva: way fer to spend Eternity. Ain’t - there. any streams where trout cud rest under: the | ‘shade of the willows...an_ -onct in a wile cudn’t there be

feller cud get snagged up an

; mebbe cuss a bit? -

‘So the Feller shakes his . head, sorta quiet like an Ses,

a

wus a problim, wot with. ‘settin’ arount, campfires till. : ‘all! hours at nite, cussin’ ‘an

talkin’ about gettin’ ‘snagged ©

up.an losin’ a big one:.an so: Sosth.. Nobody in the Fields.

wus gettin” any sleep, He | ses, so things wus: siraight-

-ened out finally with a few - littel cricks an lakes in one.

corner of the Fields. After

sum trout an a few willows an _

Gead snags wus throwd in,

He ses, everybody else got.

sum sleep...although late at

nite the cussin’ wud sum- |

times drown out the harps!

Then. the Feller asts me | wot the problim wus, an Itolt |

Hi

ve

we had ailus fished. together,

with: him on:one side of the . erick an 1 me. on t’uther? I ses. fit cud be a bit: lonely: like, .

Well, Sir, 1 ses, ‘near as si

- daisy throwd in onct: in a:

an old dead snag where. a

“So. he i is one c of THEM!" So

‘Then He ‘ses ‘they 1 had “a few up in the Fields, but they

4 ses wadn’ t my. sidekick ox: ‘find. her a bit. lonely, becus.

BTR TREE Se ene

If Canada Savings Bonds . are. one of your. favorite | piggy-banks, don’t expect to. ‘be: taking home .as- ‘mach ‘bacon this year. as last.

- Details of the 1977/78 ak

camipaign are e to be © made. public i in two to three | weeks, writes Margatet | Laws - in The :Financial Post. And although market observers differ in their expectations of " “the rate to be paid, there’s a consensus that we won’t be - treated to the gemereus— ’ yields of. the. Bast couple « of . Years. . .

‘The: “Basic - ‘reason, . course, ‘is that imterest rates’ across: - ‘board. aren’t ‘nearly: as high. now as they were a year ago when Ottawa Came up with a yield. on the ' “1976/77 CSBs :of ' 9; 13 per

Sent to maturity.

“Estimates ‘of ‘the yield « on. the. 4977/78 CSBs “Fange |

of” “pegged at 5% per cent, ‘and -

pretty wide, however, from ing a. rate’ of just that, with : about 8% per cent to just ;. the. .government. compensat- - over 9 per cent, over a: ing im-successive years by - nine-or 10-year life. Try die paying a rate: anywhere from . per Gent. for size, until w e ‘8% per. cent te 9 ‘per cent.- ‘know for sure! - Others see a rate for. the first | year as high. as 77

What the. government a at. : tempts ,to’ do: is to. set_a- balanced yield on the CSBs that will assure success in _faising the targeted amount -_of funds, while avoiding: any ‘crowding-out effect in the money: ‘market, Particularly’ at its shozt-term end. _

With the sayings rate. at. “the. chartered | banks . ROW |

an change with. every” : TUNE-UP 4 cyl. from $29.95. -. -Beyl. trom $39.95 |. - 7 includes parts & labour,

- one-year guaranteed: invest-

“companies paying Tx ‘per. cent, it looks as if the. 1977/78 CSBs might yield ‘around. 6% per cent in the . first year.

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