Winnipeg Free Press

Winnipeg Free Press (Newspaper) - December 15, 1971, Winnipeg, Manitoba Mink prices up mpg. Auction sales total million by Barry mull1n Mink is making a comeback on the world fur Market by not As dramatically or As quickly As Manitoba Mink rancher would like. This was evident tuesday a Dominion Sudack wrapped a its annual Winter ranch Miri Sale at the Winnipeg inn. When the final bid. Was accepted at the two Day auction total of ranch Mink Pelt had brought about million from buyers from throughout the world. The figures May look Largi but they Are about 20 per Cen below tiie Mink Market s Peak period of five years ago. Waste problem deferred metro waterworks and waste disposal committee decided tuesday to leave the question of whether or not a Oil storage Centre should be built up to the new Central City coun cil. The proposal was originally made by the provincial govern ment. Committee was informed tuesday however that the province is not prepared to pay the Cost of building a gallon storage tank and facility. The province will subsidize the Cost of shipping waste Oil to Calgary for re refining by a company there. D. E. Honeyman of refine Oil products of Winnipeg indicated he would be willing to lease his firm s tank to metro. The firm no longer re refines Oil Here. Instead it Sells Oil to the province for use on highways. The main problem is to Stop the dumping of Oil outside the City by the haulers who collect waste Oil from service stations said councillor Ken a Shanchuk in an interview. Coun. Galan Chuk is chairman of the com Mittee. The committee referred or. Honeyman s offer and the mat Ter of the proposed Oil storage Centre to department director Alexander Penman for use in or. Penman s dealings with the new City Council. Tuesday s meeting was the last one scheduled for water works and waste disposal com Mittee. The new City Council will take charge of these affairs when it takes office Jan. 1. The Best Way to dust rate the decline in the Market is with the Cost of a single Pelt. A Sapphire Mink Pelt brought a top Price of at this year s auction. Top Price a few years ago was reduced production has the world demand explained Len Werner president of Dominion Sudack. Right now the demand is excellent for All types of Mink but it s still not Back up to the Peak we reached a few years ago. However it has sufficiently recovered to let them Manitoba Mink ranchers to maintain their existence in the Industry or. Werner termed the aug t i o n very successful and added that the upsurge in the Market is going to cure a lot of ills in the Mink last year was the roughest according to Mink ranchers. After four years of steady de Cline prices reached the Point where most ranchers were faced with a decision ride out the rough weather or quit. Many of them quit. In 1950 there were 22 Mink ranches operating in the car Man area. Today there Are Only four. Most of the ranchers who Industry did so in the past four years when the mar get started to slump. One German buyer explained t this Way tuesday you know that the scandinavian countries Sweden Denmark and Norway Are i reducing Mink much More cheaply than you this is because fish Are cheaper and the Cost of raising them is less. And there Are Many big big in Sweden with maybe Mink on a Large Manitoba Mink ranch raises animals at a time tie average is usually an american buyer said one of the problems with the Mink Market was that people Don t mow the Quality of the skin. Mink he explained Are like precious jewels and not every be can see the Best qualities in about 50 ranchers attended the fur auction to keep a close watch on prices. There Are about 80 ranchers left in Mani Oba today compared with 180 three years ago forty two buyers from Italy Ingland Montreal new York Germany Vancouver and win Lieg attended the auction. Hey were representing manufacturers from around the world. Accounting at the Sale was handled by Tapper Sandell and partners a Winnipeg firm of chartered accountants. New Conoho Polar Start lubricating fluid pm a Whir c n Andison equipment limited Winn pfc Thompson to under Bay 774-1828 778-7004 345-5426 weather report morning bulletin the Light Nuny twi Horn mini Foci com Mimi Tea mib snowfall of Meh a. In him Mininc it skin pm air to acre Fht a in met Tara Iri Tiili Colum i Tot Low Fifer to m he map Hukem Whf Tumart nomm forecast to 20 i Torfli j5 Farr at orc. Am for few i2 Arreor Forf Low at Anu. Toxcy 1 Winnipeg free press Varnava Usa local overseas moving 786-6081 Lor estimate brochure wednesday december 15, 1971 2nd class mail registration number 0286 Al tilt Van until adept at Brush easel by Janice keys everything from water colors of Birds to a Ceramic fruit dish is included in a new display of Art works opening wednesday in the foyer of the Manitoba museum of Man and nature. All the works were done by members of the. Staff of the planetarium and museum. The show called museum Mart is designed to reflect the personal rather than the professional artistic inter ests of those who work in the Complex. About 20 of the 60 people on the museum planetarium staff entered pieces in the show. Designers technicians a Painter a photographer division Heads secretaries and curators All contributed. Many of the works Centre around the theme of Rural Manitoba with Small Ani Mals Birds and Rural scenes As the subjects. Almost every artistic medium is represented in the show including water color oils a Pencil sketch Sculp Ture Wood carving ceramics and Clay. There Are even some works in Petit Point. The show is free and will be open during regular museum hours which Are 10 . To 9 . Tuesday to saturday and noon to 6 . Sundays and holidays. The museum is closed Mon Days. S p e a 1 hours for the Christmas season Are noon to 6 ., dec. 24, 26, 27, Jan. 1 and 3. The museum will be closed Christmas Day. The staff Art show will run to mid january. Wood carvings ceramics and sculpture Are the artistic Media used in these pieces on display. They Are the works of staff members of the museum of Man and nature and the Centennial planetarium. The exhibit is set up in the foyer of the museum and will run to mid january. Con men jailed in Auto frauds by Brian Mca Nulty a pair of con men who bilked a number of Winnipeg residents out of through an interest in a fictitious ear lot and bogus sales of used cars were sentenced to Penitentiary terms when they pleaded guilty to charges of fraud tuesday in Winnipeg magistrate s court. Robert Lloyd Puckett 36, of no fixed address a parolee who in one instance sold a 50 per cent interest Iri his fictitious car lot to a Man for was sentenced to an additional 30 months Iri Penitentiary consecutive to his unexpired sentence. Gino Lorenzo Troy alias Lawrence Van tour 35, also of no fixed address was sentenced to two years in Penitentiary. Puckett had pleaded guilty to a total of 10 charges while Troy pleaded guilty to two fraud charges in which he was jointly charged with Puckett. Crown counsel j. D. Mont Gomery said Puckett began his fraudulent Money raising efforts shortly after being re leased on parole in april. Pucket sold a half interest in a bogus University motors for in May. On his return trips to. Is Puckett obtained a further on june 16 to Coyer insurance and Legal fees an additional on june 18 to provide for an insurance in crease and an extra on june 23 to pay for extra licences. Switching to the used car sales Field Puckett accepted a Trade in 1965 car and on a higher priced Model that had already been financed. Still raising funds for his non existent firm Puckett later sold an additional 15 per cent inter est to his inspecting business associate. A Luxton Avenue woman was next bilked for on july 29, when Puckett sold her a 1971 car that he had leased from a car rental firm. Puckett drove off with the automobile magistrate i. V. Ubienski was told after the Man said his firm would under take some minor repairs and adjustments to the vehicle be fore returning it to the woman. Troy who was. Sentenced to two concurrent two year terms on monday became involved when he sold a Automo Bee for on sept. 28. Puc Kett had it from the Sanie rental firm on aug. 11. The automobile was taken away for minor repairs to St. Vital hew owner be coming suspicious notified. Lice of a theft when the car had actually been picked up by. The rental Agency. Whose record dates Back to 1960 for various fraud offences offered to sell a Man s 1968 car and then disappeared after disposing of it at an Auto Mart for on sept. 7. Troy became Active in the ventures once More on sept. 27 when he rented another Cari which was sold five Days later by Puckett for from the same Agency. After the pair left for the United states on nov. 6, they were taken into custody Ittel Centro California and deported arriving in Vancouver on dec. 7, and later returned to Winnipeg. Police recovered out of realized in the fraud i Lent sales and business tons. Christmas mail pouring through Stan Frydyn a museum technician and Karen Freeman an clerk who both contributed to the Art display examine a water color Freeman s cull. In i. Background Are works by another staff member depicting Rural Manitoba proposals sought on bikes for rent metro Parks committee decided tuesday to Call for proposals for the operation of a rent a bicycle service in metro Parks. One proposal was made last october by wharf co limited of Winnipeg and the committee five Hurt As vehicles collide Vancouver 24 32 a -7 .62 Max. Fre. Decided to have the Parks department study the matter. Subsequent expressions of in Terest caused the department to suggest that metro advertise for formal proposals. Wharf co recommended a test run in Assiniboine Park to judge the feasibility of the ser vice. The company proposed renting regular bicycles for 50 cents an hour or a Day with a higher charge for spor tier bikes. Metro would take a 10 per cent Cut of the Gross Rev Enue from the service and would be expected to provide a 400-Square-foot shelter for the bikes. Wharf co would carry the insurance and provide the bikes. Parks director Martin Benum said metro would look for the i most financially attractive pro hunted in Advance Man jailed 3 years a Young Man whose Active Caplette and another Man dec. Bro sets Madrid 53 37 Ted of Hildebrand of 87 Weaver Bay St. Vital was reported in Good condition wednesday in St Boniface Hospital with leg injuries suffered m a three car Accident Early tuesday on tache Avenue in front of the Hospital. A police spokesman said or. J _ Hildebrand was a passenger in other business the com a car Driver by his father j Nutter Abram Hildebrand 4s, also of 0recommended the 8? Weaver Bay. Of m. M. Dafflon consulting the spokesman said or. E3 j Giae ers for the pets ring Aad Debrand was driving North of of a devel acne when his car West oct of Praest covering Abbot 23 acres control and was a Cossia at the Southeast Corner of As with a Sassic Boydd taxi and so Sini Boide part. The it rods for vejs de fee project Are a metro s is7i ties came to the attention of police before he and another Man became involved in an armed robbery in which a sales clerk was threatened with a .16-gauge Shotgun received a three year Penitentiary term when he appeared for sentencing tuesday in Winnipeg magistrate s court. A police search for Guy Bene dict Caplette first began less than two hours before a night sales clerk at a 7-eleven store 815 Ellice Avenue had been threatened with a Shotgun As Caplette and another Man Rob bed the store of at 4 ., j dec. 5. J Caplette and the other Man had been driving on the j grounds of the Manitoba legis j Latorre in a rented vehicle. J after being approached by three Javenes at . Who thought Tibey recognized 4, from the Furby meat Market 601 Portage Avenue. Caplette received concurrent sentences of three years each after pleading guilty to armed robbery and breaking entering and theft Manitoba is Are mailing Christmas cards and parcels this year with almost the same spirit As they did a year ago when prices were lower. There la be a bit of a drop this year but not like we had expected there for a said a Winnipeg Post office spokesman. For a while it looked like there would be a severe de crease but things sure have picked up around Here. Take monday for example. A total of stamped tems went through the Winnipeg Post office bringing to the number of parcels and cards processed during the first 13 Days of december. Last year items went through the Post office luring the same period. Almost 10.9 million items were mailed last Christmas. This year the Post office is expecting about million. Although there will be a de crease this year the drop won t be As significant As the 1967-68 figures. Price of mailing Christ Mas cards went up to five cents from three in 1968, and figures dropped from 13.3 million in 1967 to 10.9 million in 1968. This year unsealed Christ Mas cards require six cents postage. From 1968 until this year the Cost was five cents and the number of items mailed during each of those years held steady at slightly less than 11 million. The mail Early slogan is still being pushed by the Post office. Overseas deadlines passed now but local cards can be posted up to Friday and Deli very before Christmas is ensured. There will be delivery service this saturday but there will be no mail delivery dec. 27 or 23 and on Jan. 3. They Are statutory holidays. Transplant kidney removed surgeons at the Winnipeg general Hospital had to remove a transplanted kidney from a patient wednesday after a blood clot formed. The patient who has not been identified is reported in Good condition at the Hospital. The kidney of a Toronto car Accident victim was flown Here by the Canadian armed forces tuesday and transplanted in a 4v4 hour operation. A spokesman for the Hospital said a blood clot developed in the kidney overnight and it was removed wednesday. The kidney had been donated by the family of 23-year-old Fred fans who died of injuries received in a car crash. Or. Faris died tuesday after being injured sunday. The Hospital spokesman said the operation left the patient in the same condition As before the transplant attempt the patient with one partially functioning kidney will need to use dialysis machine to do the work Are of a Normal kidney. He said or. Sas Abife ecsa 4s, trere to pc Spital Fuff a was to Kjosnes ado Saed to pc we. Peace ;