Winnipeg Free Press

Winnipeg Free Press (Newspaper) - July 16, 1973, Winnipeg, Manitoba Winnipeg free pre monday july 16, 1973 news Raisin Stock up advised prices to double soon by Nancy Craig Consumers should Stock up on raisins soon prices Are expected to almost double be cause of droughts in Australia. Price increases of dried fruits and other food items were explained to news Media and consumer groups last week marking the birth of a new consumer link Between the food Industry and Consumers. M. D. Booty of Winnipeg announced at the Marl Borough hotel that the Canad an grocery distributors Institute will hold monthly news conferences in an Effort to relay information to Consumers Here Are the underlying Rea sons for Price increases of various commodities As explained by or. Booty who is president of the distributors Institute Salmon a Fisherman strike in British Columbia if settled too late could make the Price of a tin of Salmon jump to about 99 cents to from its current Range of 83 to 9 cents. Or. Booty said Salmon Quality is Good this year fish i fatter than Ever but in order for the fish to be processed for consumption in the coming year they must be caught while the fish Are work ing their Way upstream spawn increased Salmon prices will reflect the poor timing of the strike with the catch season he said. The fact that the fishermen arc asking for higher wages will also result in higher consumer prices he added. Peas not Only will the Price of Frozen peas Rise be cause of labor problems but the Price of foods containing peas such As baby foods and soups jul also Rise or. Booty said. The Frozen food Industry in parts of Ontario Are currently on strike. If the peas Aren t picked and processed soon pea prices will Rise because they la be too dried up for use. Or. Booty noted peas Are at their Peak of Quality now. Honey prices have risen due to decreased Supply. According to or. Booty Man Toba is the Best Honey producing province in Canada but supplies for Domestic consumption were reduced when the province began exporting the product. Producers received their Honey bees from California about t month late this year. Production is therefore a month be Hind last years the inst Tuli president said. He said a Case of Honey ii september Cost today it is Price Canada imports most of its Rice from the u. S. The Mississippi River flooded this year and raised havoc with Rice production. Asia experienced a Rice crop failure this year and the u. S. Has suggested most of its Rice exports May go to Asia rather than Canada to the people about current trends in the who rely on it As dietary Sta food Industry new develop ments and predictable Price canadians May therefore changes. Have to depend on local sup plies of potatoes or pay Premium prices for Rice this year or. Booty said. He said the Price of Rice and one cent a Pound last week and will continue to go up. Margarine this product is 80 per cent Oil the u. A. Main source of vegetable i for Margarine is soybean while Canada s is rapeseed. With Thi heavy demand for soybeans As a source of protein there Wil be greater demand for Canada s rape Send by Margarine manufacturers of both coun tries. Margarine prices Rose by two cents a Pound recently Anc or. Booty expects they will go up five cents by fall. Strawberry Jam Ca Nadian strawberries Are poor this year Jam manufacturers will have to rely on mexican strawberries but Mexico also had poor crops. Or. Booty predicted further increases from the Rise of Straw Berry Jam Price to a Case recently. Peanut Butler the major Supply of peanuts conies from Virginia. Crop and de Mand conditions have resulted in prices rising to 29 cents a from 17 cents in the last new months. A year ago a Case of Peanut matter Cost or. Botty said the Price now stands at it s really not the cheap spread we used to give the dried and canned fruits Canada imports the bulk of its tried and some canned fruit from Australia. Droughts in Many of Australia s fruit grow ing areas will mean higher prices. The wholesale prices of Rai added to this is the fact that sins and currants practically doubled in june retail shelf prices Haven t been hit yet or. Booty said but they will Likely Rise soon. Onions floods in the u s. Affected production this year so Canada was forced to import some supplies from new zealand resulting in abnormally High prices. Cucumbers and pickles Cucumber crops in South Wes Tern Ontario Are expected to be similar to last years but the increased Price of Glass card Board boxes and labor May push up the Price of pickles Elliis year Ontario producers Lold or. Booty last week. Pickle prices Wil increase if Cucumber crop failures come Between now and Harvest time. Potatoes British Colum Bia potato prices Are up almost .00 per cent Over last year due o shortages in imported sup Ilies from California. Between the time that Canada s old crop of potatoes runs aut and the now crop comes in Consumers rely on California potatoes. However u. S. Price controls have resulted in a shortage putting pressure on the Only other available crop from British Columbia. U. S. Wholesalers had their resale prices fixed by the government while growers prices have continued to increase with rising costs labor and materials since last year. As a result the wholesaler is caught Between higher buying prices and fixed Selling prices. Because the wholesaler can t Market potatoes profitably he is making no purchases from the grower with the net result of shortages of potatoes for Ca Nadian buyers. Or. Booty noted that when the local potato crops come on inc Market the situation will be relieved. The Canadian grocery distributors inst Etc is a National non profit voluntary organic Tion with membership fro wholesale retail Supplice manufacturer processor an production Levels of the greedy Industry. Or. Booty said it represent 10 per cent of Canada s food business and tries to improve efficiency in the areas when members have control. He emphasized Canada in a self sufficient food producing nation that Consumers mus realize their food Supply is a acc cd by worldwide deman and world crop and live slow productions. Troupe offers More than speeches by Jean Sharp women s editor Toronto cl1 you might Call the a Zumba troupe quiet revolutionaries. A joint statement from them says we Are an eight woman theatre troupe doing plays about women. We will play for anyone who will Lis ten but one of our goals is to stimulate women to think about themselves and the role society has imposed on beyond that they decline politely but firmly to have a common image imposed on them. Pat Leggo of Hull que., says we like people to understand that each one of us has different opinions on women s lib and on what we re doing. We re by no Means ail the same or All the same de Gree of Christine wills of Ottawa says we agree with the Basic issues of women s lib things like equal pay and but when you get into emotional issues such As sexism it gels very comply Chris was one of the four founders of the troupe. She focus on diet despite medical and government warnings and their own past disappointments overweight men and women persist in their quest for the Miracle diet a Quick and easy regimen that will take pounds off permanently and let them eat what they want. This week the free press win feature a three part series on some of the fad diets served to the pub Lic each year. Stale bread decorates House Brampton ont. Up the decorations in Joan but now works for modern age a furniture firm. Terri old s House include a she says she believes a Home samples or Small throw rugs in different colors big Snoug to fit one step. Keep the collection about the same weight acc filter and two pieces of should reflect its owners per stale bread. Tonalities and does not have to texture and blend of fibres to mrs. Butter Field is an Interi Cost a Fortune. Assure uniform a capability or decorator who says she end your Home is the Selling i Cut pieces to fit a step and Usi courage customers to express their own family s in crests and tastes in their surround Ings and who practises what for yourself and your lacks or Staples to hold each so let it reflect your skills Tal i piece cats and interests. If it does she says you can brighten she preaches. Tive 1 the filter has become part of she this it s bound to be attract i the bathroom with old news a Light and airy sculpture. The bread has been allowed to curl sprayed with Copper and used As an abstract design. Mrs. Butterfield was bored working in an office. She stud cd decorating at night and if adds you arc not confident papers. I paper a basemen that you have the skill and ingenuity to carry out decorating bathroom with want ads clipped from newspapers. Cd off All the White margins Anc i or o j e c t s successfully Start apply whole pages in vertical with a Small project. Strips. Cover the waste Basic for instance carpet your1 to match then give them a stairs with carpet remnants. I coat or two of varnish 10 years that changed the shape of the world celebrate weight 10th anniversary with a free registration offer now free registration during weight watchers 10th anniversary Celebration you Only have to pay the weekly meeting fee of upon join ing. A saving of off de Good limited time Don t wait another Day Start now phone 942-4284 for encouragement Call our . Linn anytime watchers. Heather Maccallum of Ottawa left and Connie Kaldor of Rejina put on a puppet show in Toronto. They Are members of be Zumba theatre a Federal opportunities for youth project. The feminist theatre troupe is performing in Ontario Quebec and the maritime. Pleased with two results of their work. They played at the women s prison in King Ston and say there is interest among the women there in doing something similar. In Hamilton the National coun cil of jewish women showed interest in the possibilities for work among mentally Dis Turbed women. Connie Kaldor of Regina says we hoped women might take the idea and do something Natsuko adds we have few props just ourselves to show women that As Long As they be got themselves they says the idea had several roots. Men get better parts be cause plays Are written for men. This was something to do that we wanted to do to pro vide a service for All of the women want Ca Reers in the theatre. Seven of them came to Gether through a Chain of Mutual acquaintance. Canada manpower found Suzanne Charbonneau of Point a t i n e a u que. Suzanne is actress stage manager and coach for the French Lan Guage version of their revue. As much of the material As possible is Canadian and Natsuko Ohama of Ranier alia., says the French revue has a greater Canadian con tent. The French Are More concerned with experiences of women rather than women s Linda Griffiths of Montreal says we re trying to get at the feelings of a woman. We Haven t done it through the Standard issues of women s Mich la Pinet of Ottawa says we offer something other than Radical speeches that just turn people they have been especially Don t need anything else. They Don t need in the Middle of their tour they had Only been heckled once an experience they acknowledged bothered them in various ways. Chris says the hecklers weren t attacking the feminist Content of the revue but were just insulting a group of women. The troupe is on an opportunities for youth Grant and plans to write a report based on a questionnaire they hand out at performances. In mid tour they had had what Michele Pinet of Ottawa describes As Good clean be g a t i v o and positive re they said it was too soon for any statistical analysis but they thought that Radical feminists tended to describe the revue As too kindly to Ward men. Middle aged men seemed to find it bitter. But Pat says i Don t think one person has said they Haven t enjoyed the they will have appeared in 17 communities in Eastern Canada by the time they Fin ish the tour on aug. 13. Then they la write their report and disband. They wrote to universities and to women s centres for bookings and say few of the universities replied. Their joint statement says we Are doing a revue in English and a different revue in French As Well As an English drama a puppet show work shops and a Street they be played in Parks in y a in auditoriums. They say they won t play where men Are kept out even though they Are sympathetic to the reasoning. Linda says that s the Point of the thing to speak to men. To get to people who Aren t already indoctrinate fashion Industry braces for showdown Hemline hassle warming up for fall by Nina s. Hyde Washington special something better to do with i that Money. Women were by tons of1 coi line anti fashion As much inches but since those inches is anti Midi. Affect hemlines for fall the the fashion change of 1970 fashion Industry is bracing for lavas greater than the hem line but with All the hoopla a showdown though the Battle cry is familiar to lengthen or not to lengthen the teams line up differently than they did three years ago during the last hem line hassle. And the outcome surely will not be the same by Over length the real change went almost unnoticed. At the Start of the 70s women and men once again became cons Cious of health weight and Fig ure. They were joining weight watching groups using health cause women arc not about to in u d s. Taking Sauna Baths burning to gadgets like weighted and inflated belts and using body creams body masques and body oils. The status Symbol was the Young firm tuned up body. Surrender the Freedom and Youthful look of knee length skirts. Longer hemlines will be an option not a Rule. In one Corner Are a few but influential designers like Hal Ston Adolfo and Saint Laurent who like Long skirts and have shown them for fall anywhere rom two inches below the tree to ankle length. In the other Corner Are most retailers and some other de signers including Calvin Klein Ungaro Bill Blass and John Anthony who say that things ire Tough enough already with he Price of clothes going up and business generally being a from great. They lost Uio ast go round with the in Icli and were Hurt where it hurts the nost in the pocketbook. They a longer hemlines and con used customers arc something hey just Don t need. Besides hey say it is aging dowdy and simply not pretty. Somewhere in the Middle ight now arc the holdouts the fashion stores that say Only the Aris showings of couture do Igns opening later this Rounth could convince them lat hemlines should drop. A Telephone Survey of Paris of Turners shows that the Lead no Paris designers arc not United either. Saint Laurent continue to show the below Nee length and longer he pre and for both men and women were willing to diet sweat or even Cut off pounds. The exercise equip ment business ran million in 1970, an additional Mil lion or More was spent on Beauty appliances. Courreges boxy dresses certainly did t show off svelte figures. Designers therefore needed to come up with soft very body revealing clothes that took on the shape of the wearer. When designers went for softness in 1970, they also went for length. Soft clothes Cut As Short As mini dresses would have looked like pyjama tops. By lengthening dresses design c r s were exaggerating the softness. Without the untimely and excessive push of the Mic i by some proponents designers would have pulled hemlines Back from the exaggerated length to More natural knee length fur shia Era and Way of life. The Midi became Loo much the Issue the soft fashion never had the Chance to develop normally. However soft clothes arc very much the look managers said so Pic a croup head of All the Saint Laurent operations in this country. But he said absolutely not and despite the first resistance women arc buying the Saint Laurent look As the designer intended without much buyer in thus stores could Cope with that. And even with Scott Barric s longer lengths particularly in the soft Jersey dresses similar to those of London designer Jean Muir. Many stores Side stepped the Issue by buying Only Short things from the bar Ric collection or ordering and asm the Hemline Issue could i getting the Long designs Cut have died right after Paris. I Short. But it started to resurface when Oscar do la Rynta teased his press and buyer audience at this fall showing in new York Early last month by presenting a handful of designs at about mid calf. It s Only an do la Rynta said. I m showing the same things Short at the knee that i m showing Long. Women should have the it was Halston who really rocked a lords on inc subject of length last month. The Only Way to make clothes look new is to make them Halston said. One of Ila Slon s current theses is that women have been liberated by wearing pants. It gave women the Chance to sit without worrying about keeping their Knees to he said. The result is that women need tie coverage of longer skirts for decorum. He proceeded to have every thing in his ready to Wear col Lection longer than before and with All the familiar trappings that go with longer hems including boots and flowing Playpen safely Ottawa Consumers As Sci Ationo Canada warns parents not to tic toys to play pen railings children can easily strangle on the string. Keep playpens away from lamps cords Glass venetian blinds fireplace tools and stoves. Cac National head quarters Are located at 100 Gou Cester Street Ottawa. Holt Renfrew captions saw ways to shorten these skirts to acceptable con cited in his ready to Wear col j _ Iong or Short today. Actions last March. Marc the Hemline Battle warmed 3ohan at dior and again in Paris during the Jungaro however vote nun ready to car shows in March n the longer skill. Some designers let hemlines no one is calling inc longer slip Down an Inch or two and he even the word is i collections like that of Franck painful. It conjures up a look Olivier included Skirls at least that encouraged an one healthy Inch below inc Arcady div closing consumer knee. Others like Sonia Rykiel i Volt proc impaled the evolution a Chloo and Hie Mac opted on f the pants fashion helped he one Inch drop and Ameri a i s c r c d i t High fashion and can buyers with very few Ade new heroes of t h e n in now Roady to Wear designers. What is easily forgotten proportions. Even the lat the Midi disaster was a i influential Jap collection by in off of two other major Kunzo Takao which included Ipp clings in fashion. Women i Many m i d c a f Broomstick Imd clothes expensive Yel Noli Skirls was bought by the Ell made for the Price and stores at the Shorter length. Yves Saint Laurent one of the most influential of All de the downturn in the icon signers continued his hemlines omy did t help. Women. W e i i below the knee and s i o p p c d buying expensive 1 o n g c r Kvin though Saint clothes and in the same Laurent s own boutique fran i buying slowed on cars and owners m this country plan pcs. All retail and service h o i 1 c re d for help. Sailll1 businesses were Down. Laurent offered no Relief. I Lvon women who could well1 i asked Saint Laurent if of afford in imy a name would ship things Shorter to his i dress realized thai there was american stores As the Storel were tired of fashion in Gener Semi annual shoe Sale our Complete Stock of ladies fashion footwear and handbags greatly reduced Good selection All sales final Holt Renfrew shoe salons ;