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TiMEi.Y NOTES on run rinmue
The four day general auction of S
the Canadian Fur Auction Sales Company (Quebec) Ltd. saw ad- vances iffrom lotoaopercent in foxes compared to last year's opening levels. Quality-wise white marked and loweingrades of plat-
best sellers registering clearances of between 70 and W per cent. Blue. red and cross types sold rather well. In the miscellaneous ft... offering whites and selected full silvers were mostly with-drawn while pearl. half and three-quart- er types were only partly cleared. In spite of price advances in a few silver fox colors Mr. Arthur Prent- ice. the manager thought that the
J general picture for these longhair furs far from encouraging. The supply has gone down consider ” over the past years. This constant selective demand for quality sil- vers has discouraged production so that the annual" supply here in Can- ada now stands at some 5.0()0 akina.
Miscellaneous foxes. blue, red and cross types mostly sold, whites with-drawn. Silver foxes, platinum, 45 per cent sold. advanced 25 per cent compared to January. 1955; infcriors 90 per cent sold, advanc- ed 30 per cent: pearls, small per- centage nld, unchanged. White marked '75 per cent sold. advanced 10 per cent: half and three-quart- ers. 35 per cent sold, declined 10 per cent. Selected full, mostly withdrawn, regular full 40 per cent sold, declined 10 per cent; inferior silvers 70 per cent sold, advanced 30 per cent. and low grade sil- vers 90 per cent cleared. Platinum (230 skins) sold with 311-312 as top. pearls (899) were between 88.50-315: white marked (292) S5- 38: and half and three-quarter sil- vers S7.50-Sl0. Regular full silvers (1,431) were from 34-f9: blue fox- es (214) sold 32.50-312. while reds (1.011) were between 60 cents and 81.50: and cross foxes (288) 40 cents to 31.25.
PRICES WERE FIRM
At Hudson's Bay Company's fur sales in New York last week a very ordinary collection of stand- ard ranch mink was 79 per cent sold. The turnover considering the qualitv and the quantity--63,l08u was rated "gratifying" in the of- ficial report which stated: "Pric- es fi.m to Jan. 5 sale. The sale was gratifying considering the qualify of merchandise offered. The amount of interest generated by this very ordinary collection was surprising." Top males went for 337; females 319.75. Both lots were from Section 1. The sales- room provided several reasons for the comparative strength of the sale. First, it was noted that prices on cheaper merchandise were com- petitive with price levels in Scan- dinavia during the past few months. In fact, several buyers claimed ilic quality for low-priced domestic standard mink was far superior.
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"Take the "females, for ex- ample," one buyer pointed out. "We can pick them up at this sale for around 311. and some bundles have dipped to 38 (although they might be buy-backs). Nevertheless, ' ' in Scandinavia, with ship- ping changes. would come to about 312 when delivered. and this mer- chandise is superior in quality. on an over-all evaluation." Similarly. males were going for 318-321, which made them fairly compet- itive with lhcir Scandinavian count- erparts. Included in the offering were an estimated 10,000 pelts rat- ed average-to-good by buyers, sev- eral big purchasers were interest- ad in the comparatively better lots on a "futures" basis. figuring that with slack competition goods of some quality might be available for use much later in the season. aiiicse people were not disappoint-
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IPLIT SKIN FIELD
Most of the merchandise. how- ever, was meat for dealers and manufacturers interested in goods for split-skin mink garments. The expansion of the split-akin field during the past year no doubt in- creased purchasing interest in or- dinary merchandise at yesterday's sale. Merchandise was said to come from many sources although none was described as "local" in origin. In other words, the entire offering was held to be made up of fresh goods. Observers noted a very good turnout in view of the quality of the offering. Much of! the muchandise. it was said, was! part-lofted as ranchers cuUed their? offering of less desirable skins.
Last week at the American Fur Auction Sales in New York close .to 30.000 raw and dressed EMBA Autumn Haze types were 75 to W per cent sold with regulars bring- Inff Mlhest 0! M1 for males and 321 for females and Stewarts bring- ing 838.50 for males and 330 for females.
tatea. Like many others Paul pro-
bably is now of the opinion that siver fox is pretty dead.. .”Paul Reinhardt. of Burlington, Wis., has discovered that pioneering in the fur field has its complications, and the rewards are few. far between and long coining. Mr. Reinhardt inuin and regular full slivers were hgg go he considers himself well-fortified for the trials he must face in pro- ducing ranched stone marten.
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been disappointed before,
"Mr. Reinhardt has been for div-
ersification for a long time. Just as with produce. he says. yarn cIn'I put all your seeds in one crop, or all your cash in one fur. He went along with the mink trend, but de- cided to be different and began raising foxes as well. Women sort of out-foxed him on that latter ef- fort--by turning their backs on long-hair furs-and Mr. Reinhardt had to come up with another ef fort. He had long looked with fav- or on the sable, a most luxurious for which the Russians have been raising for many years. Unfortu- at very gracious about parting with any of their ranch-raised sables. Once. some trade sources claim, the Russians sold sables to a non- Russian purchas
raise a flock by le its course. The Soviets, however,
ely, the Russias have not been
who hoped to g nature take
tainpe ed with the breeders
so that nature couldn't. Mr. Rein- hardt was not to be daunted. Mart- ens, he felt, were close enough to sables to warrant the gamble. Of one thing he was fairly certain: Martens had had a very consistent fashion market, which was more than could be said for foxes.
"In 1949 he bought a dozen live artens in Switzerland. Next pro- em was to learn how to raise
them. Most of the more scientific approaches on the subject had been developed by the Russians-the same crew, no doubt, that alleged-
pulled a fast one on the sable
deal. Mr. Reinhardt made the ac- quaintance of a Professor Fritz Schmidt. an expert on zoology who had once managed a cable farm
Russia. It was the professor's eory that three factors prevent-
ed satisfactory development of a rant-hed marten industry. outside of Russia. that is: 1. People don't have enough patience to raise the beasts. 2. People won't put enough money into the operation. 3. People, simply don't live long enou L to see the full development of a flock. As might be expected. there are problems involved in marten de- velopment. For one thing, the ani-
als don't reproduce at all until ey are two and one-half to three
and one-half years old. But more devastating
to potential marten iscrs is the comparatively small
litters and the downright long-for- animals gestation ' period. Wild
artens turn out ilk kits per litter
on the average. but Mr. Reinhardt's ranched animals have doubl that rate. More important, it ta es a female marten nine months to pro- duce a litter. a long time in a
arien's life, not to mention a
ra1icher's."
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the Knights of St. John of Jerusa- lem (sometimes called the Knights
Malta)-ruled it and defended it
from Moslem attacks.
Cat r and passageways be-
neath the city have served as homes for the poor, supply depots. bomb shelters. Dotting the island are remains of prehistoric temp- les built long ago before the Rom- an reign of Nero, when St. Paul, shipwrecked on Malta, converted its people to Christianity.
CHANGES To MALTA The air-age has brought chang-
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duces fruit. vegetables. or grain.
Malta's ”iRed Soil Law" requires anyone who build: a house to dig up the soil on the site and give it to the government so that it may be covered and lost to ciiltlvation. The government kindly arts It away to use for crops.
Factories processing crops for export are part of a postwar pro- gram for developing industries to
sources. Canned fruit. paste, and oranges team with long- famed laces and filigree silver on the growing export lists. Island pot- ters mold vases, iars. and dishes from local clay as the ancient Maltese did. Women have made a fine art of weaving delicate laces from home-grown cotton which al- so supplied sailcloth for the ships 1! Nelson's fleet. Hand looms turn out gay fabrics for table linen, blouses, and skirts. Flower and vegetable seeds are raised for Unit- ed Kingdom farms and
Island fishing fleets still
stock. Nearly 40,000 roam country pastures and city streets, menac- ing motor trafflc. Iron-work gates bar them from the houses.
Queen Victoria's statue. promin- ent in a Malta square. withstood the crash of wartime bombs. Cou- rageous islanders who sat out the raids with the unscathed statue. feel a new bond with Britain as their request for union shows.
EXPEDITION TO STUDY
The first archeological project outside Canada to be undertaken by any Canadian institution will be sponso ed by the Globe and Mail this winter and spring. Jan- nary to March. Dr. A. Douglas Tushingham, head of the Royal Ontario Museum's Division of Art and Archeology disclosed that the museum will collaborate with the British School of Archeology in Jerusalem for excavation of the side of the Biblical City of Jericho. in Jordan. Funds for the expedit- ion have been provided by the Globe and Mail.
A party of three archeologists and David Spurgeon. globe and Mail staff reporter, will set out soon to join the British expedition
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last four years by the British school with the collaboration for three of the four years of the American school of Oriental Re-
Ontario Museum in this project is felt to be highly important to it
WORLD POWER offset Malta's lack of natural re- I
curtsy off Malta's coast, but their cl-Sigy of .Tomm,,-5 D(,pa,.um.,,, of 17 from Britain.
equals we Wm M 5" 03"” "V? search in Jerusalem he was assist- ary, 90 Prince St., Charlottetown
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ea to Haiti.-its location makes I la the near last. I 15.”; 9; gum, ugnum, an 3”; Mclg..c. .
35?". no expedition has a two-fold Andrew at Monticello West, Mrs. in-. and Mrs. "Paul Mclflnnon.
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r tin in chief - , Th de iii. ' - i - . C E "L'””,'f,';',',,,,&,',',, ' "E, account of Jerlcoa capture by the Cmjomgm ”'"''"'I 0:! Nag an and I number of nephews and m. and Mrs. Wilfred iicxi... YIUS 3 on 0
indirectly. about a quarter of oi. laraelitee under Joshua. and to anher 7th. uss. Jung . Her "mm . a non. . . '
popuuuou olives, age, and gap. learn as much as possible about Lai-en formerly of Goose River, me home ,1 kg". Eonnyignm ML ""1 M11 hh” Km3' I , m
.5 uagm ,0 ed in mud mans fmixtghf InslI::l' Nth: sumahnd u up cw. mveer Rania A. McDonald, Souris Line , (AP) Cy S the y Fm
elima grea llllll ence 8 I93 res in 3 . 3. ' ' CLEVELAND - rue . lieconstrum ance c acarcity of arable land is a major layer upon layer of rubble at the yieart Home for ii. W, m ggehhgrsgaugbzdurzmgg mi. pd ggooiliiiu. Fl , Emu. can-dm y hm clmmd ., Mac, 3,, 5,”, new lg”, bunny" Somme Amwtm k.'Ine:l":1idl:' bee d durin the ”32.l”i. hvlhtlfm W "mm "my ""'”'"I (0 I"-F WIke- Mi-I Ilia Mrs. Arl;isbroa)ennSteele. ilnacler. will be confronted with m "Mm "' 13 y"" al V” "'""d''"" ""3 "”'” W" L ” ” " "3 3 3 9 '"il ” "" 5” 01 0c- Her tunnel was held at St. Mm Vince Sutherland. a si,512.ooo income tax claim untold tIiTinin'a'ioil'wvili iihsnlbitlliedi
tober, when she took nick. and dig; um M”. Ame" Me. Mr. and Mrs. Archie 0'llanley Mr. and Mrs. Thomas Mc-
Donald, Providence. R. I. John Jr. and Anna Mccormack. Mr. and Mrs. Leo Gorman. Neil J. Mccormack.
here next week in connect!--n with his development of a rich ore field buried below a Canadian lake.
Eaton. a native of Pugwash Junction, N. 5.. was instrumental in obtaining a 35.0W.000 loan from
Peter's Church. st. Peters, on November 10th. High Mass of Requiem was sung by'her nep- hew. Rev. J. P. E. O'Hanley, who also officiated at the grave. Seated in the Sanctuary was Rev. W. V. McDonald. The pallbear- ers were six nephews of the doc-
in contesting the federal claim 1 tax court which starts a two-we. session Monday. -
William R. Daley, an Iasocial of Eaton, and neinium Iron Ore Ltd.. of Toionto, also are invoivg in the.tax dispute.
Daley, president of Otis and c.
CREE.
But the Lord called her, and on the above inentined date she passed peacefully away. She was
is in Jerusalem. The participation of the Royal
and to this count . It is the only 31w 5 of . . museum in Canag capable of d9- dispaoysition midi” ndhgxl-I Pufugdsuflg-I:liId ElulIgI:;tusJmI:.Ii)3: lelaglgliereu Mcpheei Home. ' an investment banking firm new ing such Work, and its efforts will in the Home she did I lot of mood. Hubert Mcbaren ' Jennie '6. McKinnon Boston, MESSAGES or SYMPATIIY . syndicate which 1. sum, ,,, enhance its reputation and provide plain and fancy knitting .1 ' Many ' g ' CIeveland'g American L, .3! its staff with extra experience. which she was an expert. She MASS CARDS Mr. and Mrs. Gus Sutherland. Mr5- Mil? Clil1l0n- hllehlll club- leaves to cherish her memory 30.10;, M335, Jennie G. McK.innon. Ins SAL” man”
Mrs. Mary Mclfinnon. Mr. and Mrs. Gus Sutherland. Mr. and Mrs. Steve Kelly.
Mr. and Mrs. Steve Kelly, N.Y. Mrs. Mary Mcltinnon, Boston. ass.
W0 '"0”'"' IN two sisters. Mrs. Sarah Sutherland. ' Mr. and Mrs. Daniel 0'HanIey.
lVLr. and Mrs. Joseph McLaren,
University and people The government is seeking 31 572.000 from Eaton in addition:
eel, too. that Canada as a grow-
mmato ingworld p0we'r,'sh0uld bear some ant'tt'Ilrector;iftheJerlcho joint ex- "-ung. Montana. M,-. mm M,-5, Fred Reddln, Mr. and Mrs. Thomas Mc- income taxes for ms, and 333m of the responsibility and the cost Dehtilsleolls iliiss ,Needler. ' Mr. and 'Mrs. Andrew Me. C. W. L. of St. Peters. l jlald-. M Le 000 "Om Daley for the same year of extending the bounds of hIl0ll1- lwas already 5 M . Egdyptology aien. y ' Pupils of Goose River School. gigtei Edary) 1331.”: 5 mm! The revenue agency contend; ledge.-especially Where the lIl0Jct arch in E pet yiear olng re- ' Mr. and Mrs. William 0Brien, Sisters of St. Martha. Charlotte t . . Y. P . that if Eaton and Daley are no has a direct bearing on her own um I ted In Mr. Power at. John, N. B. town Hospital. ' " "R- V Maurice Comn mmwa held liable for those amounts in. culture. For Canada is the heir II: Clpitihg e Jericho excav- Gladys Molsaren. St. John. Sisters of St. Martha, batted 0 te. . . taxes should be paid by Premiun of the earliest civilizations known ayI0IlS 13 Spring. Dr. Kenyon, N. B. Heart Home. I n. W F th B31. Iron Ores, Ltd.. which is controller via the Greco-Roman world. 'dlIeCtCll' .of the British School of Raymond and Herbert Mc- Mr. and Mrs. H. Mertz. Chicago JoseP 9 3 H3. tlmore. by the two financiers.
The Royal Ontario MuSelim”l)tll'-,ArtceI; thaJJ1:1'gerIdlfum, has dif. IT!-len. nd Mr A coMr. and Mrs. Steve Lavas. M. D. The company has 10-year u ty will be in charge of Dr. Ilvlsll-V99 Sci ex cut: ggmg, an four M r. a s. ugustus Mc- Ian. H b A d H u Chicago clusive sales rights to ore miner uigham who will also be a.-so.u.atc;ycars.r we s e leading Palest- J?” h d H S , Cgal meter nFem; .1 Home - by Step Rock lron Mines, Ltd. 1. director of'the whole expE(l1ll(ln.ilI1l3l1 ie archeologlst and has dug Josiils all N dus utiiei-lend. are e own une a we wish to extend our thanks contends that it is a foreign open. with him will be Winifred Net-dler. I also in Britain and North Africa. Nfrc Rd 91;: ' Elm S SPIRITUAL BOUQUETS to me sister. 0; the Sacred Hem gt": "Id Wt taxable by the llnited
ardens curator of the museum's N(.'8I'J.?:'- Kenyon will be. in charge of and 3 5- 9' ulhel” Ham; and sisters and Nurse! M mm 95- The swig-d9mEI1I -I b and Eastern Department: w'J:A P”."' 195-36con3p1e:Shexpedmon sum 1" Hugh John and Angela Suth. gister Hilda Marie. Kingston, the Charlottetown Hospital and c,2,,f,?,','.',f”';f,',d lo" 3:, am" ”' er. post-graduate student Ill Uun- , an w ave a staff of about wand. 9 Dr. A. Mcmmany relatives! cuuome B, and ulerefore Yliglcizi-I
O t. and Mrs. John D. Mc- Igister M. Joanna. Silver Fails. friends and neighbours and to all come is taxame in the U. S. N B
"d 3535 WW9 Elm”-in d-I33PP93”?d- Oriental Languages and Mr SI)ul'- This department is co d ted Mr" T Thmbbmg dejsels drive the big gem. . . . th P. Ed Hn uc by liec. I , ,. y who sent Mass Offerings. Sl)irI- Tax claims aluinst -Eaton and Ker llboam wen handled oars me DIV Tushingham lmous the -lei"--erE' Flgilggatioiivfl agtl!nIlflI?lll1:'ll0l'1r5eanclIle- llvzlivlaild Pgtgrmlelacykinnon lotlttteocwliius Blood slslcm Char” g;'aihPil:tIi:'qusII:i Ea7flIglid1w:lI:agl(I1sCEI?ef Il')eaVl:l,I,l.l:relBl;Ii'I:dII.I:lcI,IlI)telIlItlIon5 by sma er ones. 1 1., -t IL -. . f . 1 . y- - ' . . . ' . - e ancers or on . . .. we rev . eere - and l-iances. Heart Home. Ileatlves o the a help in putting the Canadian pm.
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