Winnipeg Free Press

Winnipeg Free Press (Newspaper) - October 5, 1973, Winnipeg, Manitoba . Hut mss Rudat Oti Obyck Sivvy Brazil s Panta Naal Region faces unpromising future by Leonard Greenwood Pocono Mato Grosso special tons this sleepy town with its unpaved streets and Dusty squares is the Gateway to one of the most Bountiful lands on Earth Brazil s Panta haal. Stretching soil the and West from Here to the Borders of Bolivia and Paraguay in a seemingly endless Vista of Rivers forests swamps lakes and open Grassland the Panta Naal covers an area two thirds the size of Cali fornia. For two centuries Brazil Ian cattlemen have exploited and abused it plunder ing its wealth and return ing nothing. Today it is drier than old timers can remember and people who have spent their lives Here say it is sad to see the Assiniboine credit Union 300 Assiniboine a 5130 Roblin blvd. St. Mary s re. To All canadians visiting Dakota on the thanksgiving weekend special discount of 15% on any items in Pur store saturday october 6 or monday october 8 in the following departments 1. Arts crafts 2. Gifts 3. Books 4. Games toys 5. Paper 6. Stationery 7. Audio visual 8. Furniture. To take advantage of the d discount Canadian Driver s licences must be shown. We re easy to find. Take the main Avenue exit to 8th Street. Northern school Supply co. 8th Street Northern Pacific Avenue Fargo North Dakota. Pan am Antiques and curios auction Sale part ii sat. Oct. 6 at . 156 Mcphillips St. Very beautifully carved High Back upholstered settee z chairs 2 foot stools and a Matching round table made in Scotland approx. 1840. Spanish Chest with 2 Matching chairs. Heavily carved Spanish sideboard. Chippendale vanity with 2 Matching night tables exc. Cond. Victorian vanity and 2 night Ables. 48" and 39" brass Beds. Mahogany Book Case. Victo Ian love seat. Louis Xiv ballroom set exceptionally Fine consist no of 1 love seat 1 table 8 Side and 2 chairs Hall table with Marble top 2 chairs Large Mirror and curio Cabinet. 1 solid Oak and i Mediterranean dining room Ste. China cabinets. Roll top Adles writing desk. Solid Marble and brass statues. Wall and mantel clocks. Old pocket watches or. Alabaster pedestals. Tar Cotta bust. Very tall German vase. Samovar Coal of lamps. 3rass chandeliers. Ant. Keys. Rocking chairs. Diebold Safe. Fleet Bottom boat. Silver brass Glass and chinaware Etc. On View saturday 8 . Till Sale at Arlo. Jot oltion auctioneer phone 775-7717 land so dirty with weeds. Yet to the stranger see ing it for the first time it looks like the promised Mato Grosso is famous for its cattle Industry but the Panta Naal which covers less than 20 per cent of the state produces More than 40 per cent of the cattle. With almost no cultivated pasture it ports More than six million head. Each year it Sells head outside the stale. The land is so Rich that lost cattle thrive in the wilderness. In the Pocono re Gion alone owe of 14 it is estimated there Are at least wild cattle that belong to any rancher whose cowboys can Lasso them with their Rawhide lariats. Domestic pigs that escaped have multiplied so rapidly ranchers Hunt them like vermin. In one 15-minute flight More than 500 were spotted. The herds share the land with hundreds of jaguars and lesser wild cats Small Deer alligators that line the mud Banks of the Rivers and lakes and a wealth of smaller animals and Bird life. Almost anything grows. The sugar fruit toes vegetables and Coffee served at the ranches were All grown Here. So was the Black tobacco the ranchers and their cowboys Roll into cigarettes inside the leaves of Corn cobs. Gabriel Muller president of code mat the Mato Grosso state government s development group shakes his head when people com Plain. What is remarkable is not that this land is losing its productivity but that there should be anything he says. The treat ment the Panta Naal has suffered for 203 years would have created a desert in a few years in Al most any other Region of the or. Muller descendant of a German family that became a political Power in Mato Grosso has campaigned for years for changes that would revolutionize agriculture in the Panta Naal and multiply its Economy several times. He wants to build roads through the swamps and forests so ranchers will be Able to ship their cattle out quickly and to set up processing plants nearby so cattle can be slaughtered and the meat Frozen or canned on the spot. This would enable the Sears Holland does it again amazing 6 tulips from one bulb Herald in Spring with a fanfare of glorious Colour. A few bulbs planted now lets you gather an armload of tulips in april. So Beautiful they were named after Holland s most famous bulb Garden Keuk Entorf. Pkg. Of 5 bulbs. Limit 2 per customer. 10 red Riding Hood tulips. Reg. 2.29. 1.89 pkg. 50 mixed daffodils. Reg. 2.99. 1.99 pkg. 50 May flowering tulips and 50 Early Blooming Crocus. Reg. 6.88.5.49 pkg. Choose from Many More unadvertised items. M kid attn Polo and Eniy Simpsons Sears limited pkg. Personal shopping Only. Ranchers to sell their cattle fat instead of lean and would immediately double the income of the Panta Naal. That would be Only a be ginning. With roads and Quick transport Panta Naal Farmers would be Able to produce perishable foods such As milk cheese but Ter eggs fruit and fresh vegetables. The changes would breathe fresh air into the stagnant economic and so Cial system of the pan Lana Al where groups of tight knit families live in a style that has been Little changed for generations. It would also attract big investors from Sao Paulo with the capital and the technology to bring Back the former Fertility of the Panta Naal creating riches that even today s wealthy cattle Barons have never dreamed of. Or. Muller is aware of the social upset his plans will cause but he regards them As inevitable. There Are some. Families that have lived in the Panta Naal for generations who Are beginning to see the changes they will have to he says. They will survive. Others will be forced out economically to make room for people who can work with the new Lack of finance delayed or. Midler s plans the Cost of building a minimum network of Miles of roads is still being worked out but it is Clear it will be Way beyond the capacity the state of Mato Grosso. The state is hoping for outside help and in the meantime it has built 50 Miles of Road South from Pocono using the Cash it can spare. We can build Only a tit at a says or. Muller but it shows our in. 1973 the Pant Naai cattle Industry ranchers of Texas last Century. The Region is Low lying and fed by hundreds of Rivers. Four or five months a year 75 per cent of it is under water and Access is by Canoe press Freedom boosted by Ken pole m Ottawa up Freedom of the press is of the utmost importance when the very fabric of our society is being assaulted and lord Astor of Hever president of the Commonwealth press Union cup said this week. If the press As we know it s to survive and if our Way of life which i believe is very Necious is to continue then these pressures and assaults must be firmly he told a National press club Lun Cheon. The press must be worthy of its rights and privileges and not abuse them through irresponsibility and Nad taste. A free and responsible press can be a great Power for Good it can provide a real Choice o opinions and can help shape the attitudes of governments and lord Astor added it is a depressing fact that the number of countries enjoying Complete press Freedom is be coming smaller and smaller and even in those countries which still retain a Large Mea sure of press Freedom the pressures upon the whether political economic or steadily increase he admitted the cup which includes More than goo papers in the 33 Commonwealth nations is not always successful with its protest s against abuses of Freedom. Indeed they re quite Oft i ignored. But All government Are i suggest sensitive to exposure and to disclosure Espe Dally in the face of a spontaneous International wave o lord Astor chairman of the times publishing co., which includes the times of London suggested that the press Union should Start a fund to help a Legal expenses of journalists who find themselves on the wrong Side of a govern Man and so wind up in jail. External affairs minister Mitchell Sharp a head table guest at the luncheon echoes lord Astor s statement tha Canada has one of the mos free presses in the world. We probably have tin freest the most uncontrolled and i won t add the Ole adjectives that come readily to or. Sharp said joking rain hurts fish catch Knoxville Myrical fishermen caught at estimated 7.3 million pounds a fish in the Tennessee River in 1972, nearly half. A million pounds less than year Carlier. Heavy Spring and fall Rains were blamed for the decline. Small plane or of cart. Even ill dry weather it can take five Days to truck cattle 100 Miles. Cattle Are driven out on the Hoof and it costs the ranchers millions of dollars a year in vanishing beef. The average steer loses a third of its weight on the Long March and this costs the rancher a head. As a result the ranchers have developed a economic philosophy that permits them to sell animals Only when they need Money i prefer cattle in the Bush to Money in the says Dor leu. With beef prices rising rapidly and Brazil s our Rency losing value this Outlook is. Easy to under stand. But it deprives the ran Chers and the pan Taaraal of capital v for improvements a and modernization. The lean cattle Industry also drains off most of the the pan production say e x r t s far away c p o Grande in the South of Mato Grosso or even in the state of Sao Paulo profitable industries have grown up to fatten cattle. But of dollars they earn Are spent or invested a Long Way from the Panta Naal. These arguments Are be ginning to be seen clearly by the ranchers. Their willingness to spurred Mem him halloween fun the greatest select Ion of disguises Ever be a Winner get your new halloween Utekal j we re drawing by cause we have masks wigs makeup cards and spooky accessories _ _ we specialize greatest Gog t goofy Bazaar 247 none doff i pm. 942-7041 parking door Dietzgen of Canada Ltd. Suppliers for drafting surveying printmaking How Tail Alt Tram Lewis instruments Ltd. In Linin Manitoba Dittri Bulor 1438 Erin St. 772-0386 on by their worries about the future Fertility of the Panta Naal. Luis Vicente a Silva c p o Sah agronomist who owns the Sao Vicente do Rio Clario ranch says that in the past 10 years the character of the pan Tana Al has changed dramatically. I believe that in another 50 years the pan Tana Al i knew in my youth year end Sale continues gel thai one last Price Gladstone Dat Sun saves 711-761 Portage ave pm 786 7981 or 772-2500 will no longer no one knows Why the Panta Naal is drying. Or. Muller says the rain Pat Fern in the area has changed noticeably. But he denies emphatically that it might have something to do. With the destruction of thousands of Square Miles of Forest North of the pan Tana Al where some of the Rivers that feed the pan Tana Al Rise. Re correction Sav Way bldg. Supplies and of wed., oct. 3 . Approved 210 in. Super Seal Asphalt shingles should have read . Approved 210 in. Standard Asphalt shingles. Auction Sale Birds my motors Birds Hill Man. 222-4954 sat., oct. 6-10 . Some vehicles will be sold under garage keepers act. 1972 motor Bike mod. Xs850. Lerwill s6so-1k339, Only 141 Miles. 1163 of Erfene White. Serial Eyl. 4 door. 11 Cin -1 truck Pool table. 1872 dutch swinger 16 it. House trailer Crane a winches gee pump lure in toques and other Lierni too numerous to mention. Stankewich auctioneers pm. Terms Cash triple Crown. Forthe Light Drinker. By 5. To Taniok i Sens Auto Sale saturday oct. 8th at 2 . Consisting of Tine modern and old time household furnishings. China cabinets buffets dressers chests of drawers lamp and Coffee tables. Dining table with Matching chairs. Bookcases upright radio and . Sets. White enamel Annex Heater desks Kitchen set. Liqueur Cabinet office chairs Ward Robe Chest Bath tub toilet set. Beauty line Massage trunks cont. Beds crib Carriage vacuum cleaner scale adding machines car pets violin guitar fans room Heater Garden tools pictures twilite lamps trikes ornaments tools dishes clothing and hundreds of other articles too numerous to mention. Please note Sale starts at . On Small wire. 2 . On furniture and appliances. Every saturday . Auction sales room 281 Logan ave. Phone 943-8321 triple Crown Canad. 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