3..-e-..-e-::y..-..... - .s - NEW BRIDGE ICEBOU ND ST. IGNACE. MICI-I. --Towering traffic next November. Construc-iii-e I('(.lJiluil(I Mackinac Bridge awaits gan's Upper and Oower Peiiinsu- pr:--assembling huge steel the coming of spring when the fi- la's for the first time. is largely an St'('li0llS of the suspended portion amphibious operation and hailed hylof the span. nal construction season will cul- niinate in the spans opening to . v ,3. . 2.; is i .1 in the Straits tiie during above the Straits of Mackinac. the tion of the bridge. linking Michi--uiiiter. on shore contractors are lt'uS3 U. S. Air Defense Forces To Have Atomic Rockets WASHINGTON lAPi The United States hi prepared to use atnniir explosions high in the nu: to blast down any attacking enemy bombers. The defence department dis- closed Wednesday night not only that atomic rockets have been iicveloped for that purpose, but that they have been made avii- ttltle to 11.5. air defence forces. The rockets are designed for llring from jet fighter - intercept- nrs. Nuclear weapons are to be provided later for ground firing from anti-aircraft positions. The announcement means that the weapons will be stored in some cases near cities. but the department sought to minimise the , ”” danger from the rockets. both in storage and in use high in the air. Defence Secretary Charles Wil- son said the weapons "provide by far the most effective form of de- fence against an air attack," lie said they can ”destroy aircraft within a considerable distance from the point of burst." mean- ing no direct hit or near miss is necessary. in the statement thivre uas a hint that while the atomic rockets now are being distributed only for use in defence of the United States itself. they may be sent outside the country later for defence of perimeters or overseas bases. Wilson's announcement said the first of such weapons is "an air- to-air rocket launched from later- command." Nuclear warheads also will be iiimrpoiatcd in anti-aircraft mis- sile defences. including the ariiiyts Nike-Hercules and navy- air force Talos systems. a An accompanying "fact sheet” sziirl the weapons are being stored in the US. where needed for air defence. "in areas immediately adjacent to the operational units." The defence department de- clined to say just where the weap- ons are stored. But it sought to forestall anxiety by saying that tests confirm "the, possibility of any ' explosion occurring either by impact (apparently something along the lines of a missile falling off a truck or ac- cidentally dropping from a plane! or fire is virtually non- existent." Stored weapons don't emit dan- gerous radiation to persons liv- ing nearby or passing locations - ed a letter from Fred P. Newson. iEdmonton. Alberta. Fred will be remembered by many here when he was in partnership in the furn- the Cameron Block. Like many , others he caught the Western fev- er and ended up ' where he is one of the most prom- ested we were in silver foxes he sent us the following which ap- - g peared in an Edmonton journal . . Pelting out of the last foxes on the Montgomery Fur Farm at Weta- ' one of the Montgomery Brothers . types were raised at s to short fur styles and by 1948 fax - omic scene. hiiciv NOTES otlnfilli ioncs 1 I:'-go iz The i:ua--iii-n Voiidiy. FBI? 75. 1357 guhion Terms in the mail this week we receiv- ture business with his father in in Edmonton nent businessmen there and high- y respected. Knowing how inter- skiwin in December marked the end of the once booming fox ranch- ing era in Aiherta. Doug Montgomery. grandson of who founded'the farm in 1921. is shown in the photo with the final shipment of fox pelts coming from his family's ranch. the last of Al- berta's once numerous fox farms. The shipment of about 4.000 pelts was consigned early this month to the raw fur department of the Hudson's Bay Company in Edmon- ton for trans-shipment to their auc- tion market in Montreal. At the peak of the ranch-bred for mar- ket in 1937. this shipment would have brought about 320.000; now it is expected to fetch about 15 per cent of that or about 33.000. IN ALBERTA Alberta fox ranching hit its peak in 1945-46 when 29.427 foxes of all some 283 ranches. Fickle tastes of fashion- conscious women turned the tide farming was fading from the econ- In suceeding years several ranchers hung on to their breeding stock. hoping for a fox fur comeback which never mater- ialized. Foxes on Alberta fur farms have been replaced largely by mink and to some extent by chinchilla. Figures for 1955-56 show that 639 fur farms licences were issued. with mink raisers pre dominating. Standard and muta- tion mink pelted in the same per- iod numbered 142.792, valued at SI..638.3Ii4: 414 chinchilla pelts brought 38.280. The writer was well acquainted with Frank Montgomery. one of the Montgomery brothers who founded the above ranch. and re- members going out to the John R. Dennis ranch with him in Septem- ber. 1914. to assist in the selection of two pairs of silver black foxes. These foxes had been optioned at 312,000 a pair in the Spring of that year. They were of a superior breeding and type. The outbreak of war in August that year caused a great slump in the price of foxes and as a result Mr. Montgomery did not pay anything like the a- bove figures for the pups. They with Dalton strain foxes which the Montgomerys had at their home ranch near Summerside formed the nucleus of the Alberta ranch. FROM SOVIET UNION France will receive an unspeci- fied number of furs from the Sov- ceptor-type aircraft. The rocket. now is available in the air defence where weapons are added. located. it let Union as part of a new three- the two nations. informed French sources claimed the total deal would involve about 3275 million worth of products going in each direction. Unusual interest in the recent New York Fur Sales was shown by West German merchants. A- bout twelve timporters attended the sales. Since the war the trade has made most of its :90 million annual purchases throuh no Lon- don market. Before the war the German tradt bought inn-iily in Leningrad. London and Leipsig. Frankfurt with ahou: 150 mer- chants - most of them formerly from Leipsig - has renlaced Leip- sig as the center of the German fur trade. sold. The Company stated buying with some European part icipation. . fur garments was shown in Miami Canadian Government ship at the Surf Club February 21. and the following day at Burdinel Department store. The show was part of Canada Week in Miami. February 17-23, when stores in Mt- ami have undertaken to incorpor- ate some Canadian displays in their windows. The collection com- prised 36 coats. jackets and smal- ler pieces all in furs of Canadian origin. Company. Ltd. were 800 ifisher. 12.000 ermine. 30. 000 Canadian squirrel. 10.000 rac tion mink. gave I Too Much Suds For The Drains LONDON ICP-The far from sentimental. to limit the a ingredients in the manufacture 0 year trade pact signed between .. . ..-.,...Ym suds. Over 40.0130 uriliiiary raw I-JMBA mink pelts brought prices fmm firm to 5 per cent up at the New York Auction Company sale held in New York last week. The larg- est single offering. 15.0-tl autumn haze. was 71 per cent sold. All 80 per cent sold except cerulenna which were 97 per cent sold. and Argenta which was 86 per cent that there was a good distribution of the CCODDMIC GIVE” 0' I-"110" 0' A collection of Canadian made Florida. for the first time under sponsor- Commission For Nflcl. 0'1'l'AWA (CF) - A Newfound- lander. New Brimswtcker and westerner have been appointed a royal co on to view the 1019 Terms of Union between Canada and Newfoundland. Prime Minister St. Laurent an- nounced Friday in the Commons that the commission will comprise Chief Justice John McNalr it New Brunswick. a former Liberal premier of his province. Chief Justice Sir Albert waist) of New- foundland. and Prof. John Deiitsch of the University of British Colum- bia. a native of Quinton. Sask. and former assistant deputy fin- ance minister in the federal gov- ernment. Chief Justice McNair will be chairman. Establishment of the commission within eight years of union was provided for in the terms under which Newfoundland became th- ioth Canadian province April 1. 1949. Mr. St. Laurent said he expects the commission will hold its first meeting "almost immediately" to plan the course of its hearings. The commission will inquire into . Newfoundland. The general aim will be to find out whether News foundland is better or worse off in Confede atlon than it was as a British lony under an appointed commission government. IHC To Purchase British Tractors tional Harvester Company of Can- ada plans to purchase "a large H iVI'.TON (CP) Interna- The Canadian Fur Auction Salea sale opened on Thursday and: was continued on Friday. Among the furs offered coon, 2.000 marten. 500 lynx. 12.- 000 dark mink and 35.000 muta- After Ellisberg's inc. store was robbed recently the firm put out a quarter page ad headed by "Ev- Th'f K g wh Ge. tured in Canada. but suited to lilllne ll:lirS."nmyI:lle aiirveei-ilgembni Cwldl" llrmlni Mind” Beaverbrook Warns Britain Ask Separate called attention to the firm's first "robbery loss” fur sale and ex- plained. "we hope this is our first and last robbery sale." They they list of furs for clearance. haunting theme song of London's borough councils is i'm Forever Blowing Bubbles. But its associations are The joint committee of the 29 " is considering legislation t of foaming detergents because of the danger of the pipes of apartment bulld- ings getting clogged by excessive quantity" of tractors from inter- national Harvester of Great Brit- ain for sale in Canada. R. B. Bradl -y, president of the Canadian firm. said suhltan ini shipments will arrive within the next few days. Mr. Bradley's announcement said It is the first time In more than 50 years the company has made large purchases from Eng- land of farm tractors and "other machines of type: not ' NEW GUIDED MISSILE TOWER st-mbled and loaded onto a train of 14 freight cars for transfer ts Patrick Air Force base near or- lando. Fla.. for testing and servic- ing guided missiles. OAKLAND. CALIF. -This weird U.S. Army, the tower normally looking steel tower capable stands upright. but can be tilted of handling "any guided missile into any position down to horizon- now under consideration" was un- tal. The I20-feet high tower. weight- vciled here today. Built for the ing 340.000 pounds. will he disas- School Rights In Alberta EDMONTON (CP)-A resolution asking that separate school righti be granted to a . llgious minority within any centralized school dis trlct has been passed at the an- nual convention of the French Ca- nadian Associatiun of Alberta. The twoday convention of drie- gates represents about t5.00t French Canadians in the province. The resolution also asks that electors of a local Catholic public school district be granted the priv- ilege of withdrawing from a public school division. The resolution will be presented later to the provin- ciai government. Bomb Blasts Army Canteen NEWRY. Northern Ireland (AP) -- Forty artharn Ireland ter- ritorial army men escaped injury by a few minutes Thursday night when a time bomb destroyed a building where they had been drilling. The men had gone to a canteen 20 yards away when the blast Inocked them from their chairs, rocked the walls and blow in win down of a church 40 yards away. f The territorial camp had been under night and day guard since the outbreak in Northern Ireland of attach by the Otttlawed Irish Republican Army. 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