Winnipeg Free Press

Winnipeg Free Press (Newspaper) - July 25, 1973, Winnipeg, Manitoba Winnipeg free july 1973 front furs to books by Marvin Zivitz Edmonton cps when a 300pound woman complained that the Muskrat coat she was trying on made her look Mel Hurtig knew it was time to get out of the fur the 41yearold head of Hurtig largest English language Trade pub Lishing House outside Eastern says he didst know what he wanted to do after graduating from High when his father became he helped run the family fur store and stayed with it for three of the most Boring things Ive Ever done in my spend half of your waking time at so you might As Well enjoy what youre Hurtig said in an he liked to and although he knew nothing about running a retail Book he invested h i s savings of and opened a Small shop in Down town Edmonton in seventeen years his have been but Hurtig now directs a publishing company that has issued 60 titles since 1967 and expects to have sales close to this before opening the West Home food store 737 Wellington 7743491 or 7743492 shop in air conditioned Comfort we aim to please Grade a red steer beef Well Amoeo guaranteed tender sides of beef average 240280 Cut a wrapped minced beef 20 Box wrapped in 89 minced beef 89 Chuck Steak i69 rib Eye steaks round Steak wieners Maple Leaf it Bacon age i by the i Chicken legs backoff cooked Ham sliced i Short ribs 790 pork chops rib Frozen fish cakes 9 by Booth o q r pkg mushrooms sliced family o q 8 tin w if pure lard 3 pail Solo Margarine 00 g Ujj Kraft cheese slices individually wrapped j e canned drinks Allens wild 48 tin i canned coca cola 2410 Case peaches 1 lettuce 1 head 39 butter Canada first limit of 1 with Pur Chase of or free delivery on orders or Over we Reserve the right to limit quantities 96 Friday 99 effective july m Hurtig received discouraging most per sons in the Industry told him lie make a living sell ing that he should work for someone else before going into business for him self and that he needed at least the first two years were t u r n e d each Book to make the shelf look but business picked the one of the first in the City to Stock to Quality and several other outlets were i never made a substantial profit with the said who is More widely known in some circles As chairman of the commit tee for an Independent Canada after i paid my i never managed More than six percent profit on to make substantial you have to have a Large Chain operation and merchandise but you cant be primarily a merchandiser and run a personalized the idea to go into publish i n g evolved Over several years in the the first title was published in 1967 and Hurtig credits Centennial celebrations with generating interest in books by Canadian the Young company received a boost when the third Book idiot Joy by Eli the governor generals award for the business has not grown to the Point where Hurtig is too concerned about the finances to worry about the he reads All Manu scripts prior to publication and makes extensive com ments which Are passed on to the editor and after he Doest see the Book until it is if you have to be in Busi i cant think of a better its fascinating work and you Are always get Ting an its an exciting process to take ideas and bring them to As chairman of the Hurtig has spent consid Erable time during the last years speaking across the country and in the United our purpose is often mis were not against foreign but were opposed to the world Levels of foreign owner ship in Canada and the control Over the Canadian econ o in y and decision making that results from this the Cic distributes Litera Ture about foreign domination of the Canadian Economy and does political it plans to oppose the application by a consortium to build a natural Gas pipeline from the Mackenzie Delta in the Northwest the Federal governments attitude toward publishing is a sore spot for he Doest believe programs such As increased Canada Council Grants to authors and promotion of Canadian books in foreign countries Are effect the emphasis in the Cana Dian publishing Industry should be on none of these it would be More productive and less costly if the Federal government did As the Ontario government did and helped guarantee Bank Loans through chartered Hurtig says that by publishing produces relatively modest profits on volume compared to other in the traditional sources chartered been reluctant to finance publish publishing is a capital in Tensive business that takes a tremendous amount of you might sink into a Book before it sees the shelf of a when Hurtig started in the retail business in one of every 10 books sold was he estimates that one in every three is by a Canadian a re sult of better authors and publishing houses and an in creased awareness of Canada by Hurtig sold his stores in instead of being a i had become an accountant and As the business 1 was dealing with debits and cred its and almost everything else other than test recorded Washington renter the atomic Energy commis Sion dec said monday it re corded seismic signals from a soviet underground nuclear test sunday in the dec said the signals indicated the explosion of a nuclear device equivalent to be tween and one Milli Uii tons of the explosion was similar in magnitude to a test detected last october in the Region South of i a Al i 1550 freeze solid state insulation Dura plus Interior holds 402 45 1 2 l and key 8110 174 ask the sales clerk for join the Freezer Way of living gambles Coronaca upright White holds 360 Only 2 Square refrigerated shelves convenient bookshelf storage thin Wall design 234 doors open 10 to 10 thru 9 to 10 Grant Northgate Nairn 4 59 Oil you really need charge it ;