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ABBOTSFORD T RIBUNE PUBLISHED IN ABBOTSFORD THURSDAY, JANUARY 11, 1951

Pre-screening of “Stars in My Crown” held Saturday

A pre-screening of the motion picture, “Stars in My Crown,” was shown at the Abby Theatre, Saturday afternoon. Guests at this special showing included clergy, teachers and the press from Abbotsford and surrounding towns. “StarsinMyCrown,”whichwill be shown at the Abby Theatre on Sunday, M o n d ay, and Tuesday, Jan. 21, 22 and 23, is a warm and affectionate story of a small town. It’s a town seen through the eyes of a boy (Dean Stockwell), told as is if he were remembering it years later, narrated by Marshall Thompson The story begins as the boy’s uncle, a parson (Joe McCrea) strides into a sleepy southern village one day soon after the Civil War and preached his first sermon in the saloon, holding his congregation at the point of a gun. It goes on to describe how the parson married (Ellen Drew) and built his church, how he and the small town doctor (James Mitchell) argued and later became friends. He recalls the scheming owner (Ed Begley) of the general store, and the kindly Negro, Uncle Famous (Juano Hernandez) who taught generations of boys the mysteries of hunting and fishing.

The drama grows out of the things many towns knew in the troubled years that followed the Civil War — typhoid epidemics and night riders, love and hard work, greed and loneliness. “Stars in My Crown” tells the story of an average town that our grandparents may have grown up in.

THE TRIBUNE-P HONOGRAPH PUBLISHED IN ABBOTSFORD WEDNESDAY, JANUARY 14, 1981

Short-change artist doesn’t get his way with Abbotsford clerk

“Relieved” was the word Gayle Rachu used to describe her feelings after her encounter with a suspected shortchange artist Friday evening Gayle was at work at the front counter of the Abbotsford Rexall Drug Store when a welldressed black man came in and asked for a pack of cigarettes.

The man handed Gayle a $20 bill and she started to count the change into his hand where he also held a $10 bill.

Gayle recalled that he was talking constantly and “digging around in his pockets. He found a $1 bill and told her he wanted to pay for the cigarettes with it and to give the $20 bill back.

He also had the change for the $20 in his hand at that time and when Gayle said she wanted the change back, he leaned over the counter, pointed to the register and demanded his $20 bill back. Gayle said she knew what he was attempting to do because she had seen a demonstration regarding quickchange artists at a seminar she had attended some time ago. She doesn’t recall where the seminar was taught but noted she has attended several on bad checks, shoplifting, etc.

The man continued to fidget and talk but when he apparently realized he would not fool the clerk, he left. In all, he was in the drug store about three minutes, Gayle said. As soon as he left, she told the store manager, Jim Rebne, what had happened and the police were called.