Winnipeg Free Press

Winnipeg Free Press (Newspaper) - May 3, 1972, Winnipeg, Manitoba Winning Matt lbs wed Boay May 1, if padded army of puffy pandas invades . By Joann lev1ne Chr Fetiu science Wiur news service new pandas Are playful and reports the new York Public Library. And it adds is very important for a stuffed Ani by the live pandas from China arrive next month at the Washington National zoo they will have been preceded by a padded army of puffy pandas which eager toy manufacturers Are turning out like donuts. A few Days ago . Sch War announced in a newspaper advertisement our zoo got the pandas first on the next Page Macy s proclaimed its own Panda by the end of the Day Schwarz s had sold out of pandas and had to Fly in More from California. Pandas Are so popular the toy store reports that Many people bought them at easter time instead of Bunny rabbits. Now the store is displaying a Panda Rug a Panda Panama Case a Panda puppet and a porpoise looking grandpa Panda that can be sat upon. One can even save by adopt ing a Panda family Mamma papa and baby for Schwarz s closed out its Panda collection in 1971 because of Lack of interest. In the past month the store reports it has sold More pandas than it did in All of 1970. At s c h w a r z s the major Panda grouping is next to Oscar the grouch and the cookie monster. At the american museum of natural history a pair of mounted pandas lives amid leopards asian elephants one Sambar and some sloths. And there they have been since 1930. reports the museum either a Bear like member of the Raccoon family or a Raccoon like member of the Bear scientists Are not really sure of the taxonomic relationships of the giant Panda which is not too Bright and about the size of a Black Bear. The pandas at the museum have always been popular. And although they Are picking up in popularity the museum Defini Tely refrains from fads and is not installing a sign that says to the although the museum pandas Don t have to be fed twice a Day on things like 40 stalks of Bamboo Cereal Houey evaporated milk and vitamins they Are in a natural setting similar to their chinese Home land surroundings. Outside in the world of com Merce some Novelty jewelry companies Are Busy molding Panda pins anticipating a fur ther wave of Panda buying. But along fifth Avenue the Panda Hunter is in trouble. Aside from the giant Panda in the window of Berg Dorf Goodman which belongs to Schwarz s across the Street the leading stores on the Avenue show no signs of promoting pandas. Saks fifth Avenue sees very few pandas a its future and Tiffany s sees none at All. Of course Tiffany s already has one. Panda but it is definitely not for the it is a sask. Land Bill pushed ahead Regina up the sask at. Chewan land Bank Bill received second Reading in the Legisla Ture tuesday night despite the opposition s last attempt to kill it. The Bill received approval in principle on a Vole of 42 to 12 after the new democratic party government Defeated a motion by by Macdonald Milestone to Shelve it for six months. There Are 45 new democrats and 15 liberals in the 60-seat House. Agriculture minister Jack Messer wound up debate by de scribing the plan As a progressive bold and daring Corner Stone to the government s future agriculture program. It will not be the cure All for the Farmers problems he said but lit will be the Bise upon which such programs As income stabilization diversification in creased Coop ventures and farm management improve ments can be built. The plan would not be com As the opposition con tended because All the other of obtaining farm land still would be open. It simply provides the Young Farmer wanting to Start or sex Pandja Chance to rent from the land Bank commission with the option to Purchase or. Messer said. Or. Macdonald called last year s Public hearings on the land Bank a farce and t Travell ing circus because no substantial changes were made after the hearings despite objections and suggestions made by farm ers. The proposal is an unthinkable bad financial Deal offer ing Only perpetual poverty to the. Farmer in a socialistic Nightmare he said. There was no Opportunity for the Farmer to own land and the proposed scheme Laid the groundwork for the biggest land owning cot operative Ever seen. Or. Messer said no significant changes were suggested either by individual Farmers or their Organiza ohs. They agreed with the government s proposal. He said the rent under the plan will be flexible unlike that of the farm credit corporation to take account of poor years and possible drops in farm in come. The Bill would allow Farmers to sell their land to the govern ment which would rent it to other Farmers or in some cases resell it. After five years a Farmer who had been renting the land could 1my it. Attorney general Roy roman of accused the opposition of using scare tactics. Or. Romanow said references to a immunizing the land were aimed at scaring Farmers particularly those of Eastern euro Pean extraction. Don Macdonald jaw North said the Central Issue of the debate had to do with socialism and state owner ship of land. The land Bank plan opened the door to Public ownership of All Saskatchewan farm land and the government had overlooked one of the most important aspects of farming Pride i ownership again Regina up opposition members kept alive debate of the government s foreign ownership Bill tuesday stalling for the second time a vote to refer the Bill to a special committee. Last Friday the government moved that second Reading or approval in principle not be Given and that the Bill be referred to a committee which would hold1 Public hearings and make recommendations at that time and Agai Day when debate Resu position members against the proposal journey debate before the motion could come to a vote. Of would t you lice to get this one opposition Leader d. G. Steuart said when a chorus of groans from tote government Side greeted the Liberal request for1 adj turn ment. Tell it to the government members said each time an opposition member Rose to speak. I by Macdonald said the people of Saskatchewan Don t Trust Public he men acing vicious foreign owner ship Bill already was in Force because of agriculture minister Jack Messer s threats that it would be made retroactive to april he called on the government to withdraw its proposal and instead of setting up a commit tee to study the Bill investigate foreign ownership generally. Would limit the amount of Saskatchewan farm land that could be owned by a non Saskatchewan resident. 11 also would Force non residents who inherit an unspecified amount of land to sell it to a resident within one year. Danish Boycott urged Ottawa up fisheries minister Jack Davis said tues Day he Hoper Canadian con Sumen will Boycott ports in an Effort to persuade Denmark to the endangered Alan tic Salmon. He said outside the commons there can be no official Canad an Boycott of danish cause that would be in violation of the general agreement on f tariffs and Trade. V f but he said a consumer boy possibility mentioned in the commons by. Some opposition is a Good it could be individual i canadians especially those who i Are really concerned about the survival of the species the at lactic Salmon will take appropriate Hope they he v v such faction could be very Denmark sold million dollars Worth of widely from chemicals to r e t o Canada while Canada sold million to Denmark. V reports from Denmark Mon Day were that the country plans to resist Canadian Calls for an immediate halt to Salmon fish ing operations off Greenland. The Salmon caught there spawn in Canadian Rivers and Canada says the species is rapidly be coming extinct or. Davis recently banned All commercial fishing at lactic Salmon off the major spawning Rivers of new Bruns Wick. On overtime Ottawa up mounties finally Are going to get paid overtime for the Long hours they spend getting their Man the commons Justice commit tee was told tuesday. Ramp commissioner w. L. Higgitt said Between Mil lion and million will be added to the Force s budget for the fiscal year beginning april pay for a first class consta ble last year was weekly. Still to be determined is on what basis overtime is to be paid. Questionnaires sent to the. Roughly members of the Force a. Difference in opinion As to whether the extra pay should be on hours worked or on a Flat rate. Some mounties it would Fly against the ramp tradition to be paid on an hours worked basis the commissioner said adding that he is among that number. Playful and Friendly pandas arc not too Bright but who cares Black and White enamelled pin designed by Donald c. Claflin costing diamonds and All. One store on the Avenue that missed out on the first wave of Landa popularity is lord and Taylor. The store says it is glad t waited because now it expects to have some of the most Beautiful and Well made pandas on the Federal safety regulations said a store spokesman require that the bows on pandas be double knotted. The eyes of the Bear have to be executed in such a Way that the child can not remove them. And no Felt can be used on the animal be cause the child might Swallow it. Eden toy inc., manufacturers of lord and Taylor s pandas says it has not Only made a better that it has always made Superior stuffed animals. The g11 n d manufacturing company which got on the Panda Wagon Early is making the toy 20 hours a company did t pandas it merely pulled out some Panda Dies that had been stored in its die archives 20 or 30 years. Gund declined to new York and Chicago Banks that Are using its pandas to lure people into opening new accounts. Might. Pandas supersede the smile Button in popularity one manufacturer does think so. Marketing problem Are much More i explained. Another added. Thi Teddy Bear Are still outselling pandas 10 to still another manufacture said i think the Panda thing has been slightly overdone. To stores have gone after it As a possible item to feature like a miniskirt or anything else. If Tores can create a fad it is in their obvious interest to do a final Call to a Panda maker conjured up a new image of pandas. The question can you Ell me about your brought the reply can t. They Are All out to beat the Portage ave. 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