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Newspaper
Chetwynd The Echo
Location
Chetwynd, British Columbia, Canada
Date
Aug 11, 1971
Page
4
It was coal that brought Larry Gething to the Peace Country in 1920 and coal that shaped his lifelong industry dream for Hudson's Hope. Now coal has made him a comfortably wealthy man.
A longtime coal prospector, Larry, says he sold two and a half square miles of Hudson's Hope coal leases but declines to reveal the sale price. He recalls his family staking 65 square miles, mining the six foot Aylard seam, and dreams of coal’s enduring role in steel making despite market changes and wartime demand.
A listings page shows Wednesday programming from 10:00 a.m. to 11:38 p.m. including Morning Devotion Mr Dressup Sesame Street Information Matinee Encore Farm and City Today TV Classifieds Edge of Night Galloping Gourmet Beverly Hillbillies Sports Parade Evening Edition The Weatherman Mission Impossible Reach for the Top Somerset Maugham PanAm Games TBA CBC News Viewpoint Final Edition and Seance on a Wet Afternoon.
Word confirms Hudson's Hope RCMP veteran Tom Jamieson was admitted to St Joseph's in Dawson Creek last week. On August 11 at 7 00 p m CBC Inside Out features visits with the RCMP and an anonymous building west on highway 16 that houses an upper air weather station hosted by Larry Branter with expert guests conducting a visual tour of unusual places.
Halifax programming includes Banana Splits Abbott and Costello and Gunsmoke The Weatherman at 6 30 and 7 30 feature The Interns High Wind in Jamaica and Ten Little Indians cover the late slots with Viewpoint and other items listed after 11 PM
Reports show better angling after clear waters with five and six pound Dolly Varden Arctic Grayling Rainbow Trout and Rocky Mountain Whitefish abundant. Donlevee Cameron Lake and Lake Williston on Ottertail River see bites, but safety reminders keep families alert around water.
A Sunday broadcast lineup lists CBC and U S networks with time slots across morning to late night. Programs include Canadian Open tennis, Sunday Matinee, News, The Gardener, Adventures in Rainbow, The Newcomers, The Partridge Family, The Bold Ones, Suzuki on Science, It Was a Very Good Year and more.
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