The Toronto Star from Toronto, Ontario, Canada • 7

TORONTO DAILY STAR: riday Mar 14 1953 See Star Booth Mji 1 WORKMEN LABORED until Eight Contestants or Outdoors Girl Title Reach or Crown Show Has Beaver Moose And A Pretty Mermaid these weights Rainbow Trout Beavers eature Star Booth at Big Show Workman Kivarniprl ovoi Ia 1 feature of The Star's mounted olf's head which Th The head wa Riven to The an Indian from the Star is presenting to the 53BStarbv Percy Bradley of Moon reserve who will Cub pack for winning a I beam Ont 7 of 53B competing against packs from all over central Ontario WHILE MOST game fish are out of season Susan Richardson points out that lake trout may still be caught and that The Star will award a silver pin for one weighing over 15 pounds SUSAN RICHARDSON five looks at one of the beaver at The Star booth The beaver cage had to be specially constructed so the animals chew their way out enough It's the female that wins" Beavers Great hewers Because beavers must chew it's Instinctive with everything In their cage that Intended to be chew ed Is covered with metal Their floor is made of metal plates Otherwise they would chew tlirough it There are cases on Workmen swarmed over a booth at the Sportsmen's Show in the Coliseum last night until almost midnight creeling an all steel escape proof cage It wasn't for a criminal It's the cage that will hold a pair of beavers at The Star's booth hope the beavers are get ting along better with each other by the time people are In etr Phe(o by edrral Nertphoto MERMAID ONA ORBAN will perch on a reef during the show to add beauty to a tire display of fishing equip ment Keeping her company will be 20 large speckled trout record of beavers at similar ex hibitions chewing through the wooden floor and into electrical wiring which killed them Each day poplar a beaver's blue plate special are brought in to feed them The beavers eat the tender ends and just chew away on the rest In the next cage is a long faced cow like creature the only moose in captivity in Canada Ordinarily a moose won live away from its natural habitat but this one was found when it was only a baby in the Port Arthur area It was ship ped to the Riverdale too then raised on a bottle anomer rcaiure ot ine bear nooth is Curve lake The Canadian National Sportsmen's Show which for 11 years has claimed to have every thing for the sportsman in its fishing rod to insect repellent exposition has really gone over board this time They have a girl who water skis on roller with no water in sight The roller skiing if what you call such a game is part of a display which will demonstrate proper watcr skiing techniques Two girls'both expert water skiers and an Instructor were lined up for the show but finding unfrozen water at Exhibition Park in water skiing quantities posed a problem So a platform with a 100 feet by three feet depression was built Roller bearings were set in the depression and the tow rope is pulled from one end by'a winch The skier holds the rope and goes for the fastest driest ride of her career Among the dozens of out fitters' displays German made products which have been shown by individual companies the last few years will begrouped together in a display under the sponsorship of the German Canadian trade promo tion office rom a businessman's point nf view the outdoorsman Is becoming increasingly impor tant amilies arc becoming bigger and economical holidays are a must The camp outfitters By II ROII) HILLIARD Star Staff Correspondent Portage La Prairie Man' March 14 A Presbyterian minister a United Church minister and a farmer yester day afternoon sought the federal Liberal nomination for Portage Neepawa constituency in the March 31 election at a nomination convention in the parish hall of the local Anglican Church The Presbyterian Rev Harold Lloyd Henderson won 99 votes to 72 His United Church opponent Rev 11 Hamblcy got two votes Mr Henderson got only one vote in Ottawa in January when he contested the national leadership of the Liberal partyHe has the reputation of being most controversial mayor because he has been a focal point of political warfare in this Manitoba town since he became chief magistrate 10 years ago Mr Henderson's victory is regarded by many Manitoba party officials as a triumph for "grass roots liberalism' and the "biggest psychological lift" to the party in Manitoba since the present federal election cam paign began Though only 14 campaigning days are left until election day the Liberal nominee Is given a good chance of recovering a traditional Liberal seat from last year's Conservative winner George airfield Whirlwind Campaign Last night the dynamic Mr Henderson launched a whirl wind campaign that may have few parallels in modern Can adian political history Before an overflow convention crowd of 400 person had dispersed seven meetings of organi zational committees were in progress Mr Henderson in sisted before the convention that supporters should take no advance steps to organize a campaign because he felt "it Wouldn't be before a nomination was secured Butwithin an hour a campaign headquarters had been ar ranged and was open to the public fully staffed i THE INDOOR CASTING has long been one of the favorite booths at the show and this year for the first time The Star is offering this handsome trophy for the best caster Margot Kinley 20 is shown holding the new trophy oootn ror everyone to see Also on display will be a Don valley THIS SHOW has several wild life exhibits Riverdale zoo attendant Jack Mcadden is shown in The Star booth with the only captive moose in Canada In addition in The Star booth is a cage which holds two live beaver are moving into the market fast to take advantage of the in creasing demand for equipment for outdoor living There are several wild animal exhibits there this year too The booth is displaying two beavers and the only cap tive moose in Canada The Ontario department of lands and forests has Canada geese ducks and other birds caged at its display Maskinonge 25 pounds GneatNortnem Pike 15 pounds Lake Trout 15 pounds Yellowl inmpLWkflhckBass I 6 A Arrlo Small Mouth DIACK DU5b 4 pOUIKD 5 pounds The Toronto Starawards sterling silver pins to fish ermen landing fish above tLIonl IUMI1MIAI nnillWfV Ilf A KACiCl lYTUliqwU WUIN touthbtackoass pounas A Minfk U'l to watch them than they have been tonight" said Dr Norman Scollard of the Riverdale zoo Dr Scollard supervised setting up The exhibit beavers have been brought in from the provincial park at Midhurst near Bartie 1 guess they been in a cage together before because one is always cleaning up on the other KORTRIGHT PRESIDENT of the Sportsmen's Show keeps a firm grip on the coveted Miss Outdoors Girl crown it crL nnisf nnit i tv if an a fr Elaine Biederman 21 Port Colbornc Ann Kovalchuk 19 Sudbury Carole Lemay I 7 Hamib Thanks to his organizational wizard) Mr Henderson had arranged before midnight 21 meetings three for today Ad vertising space was booked In nine newspapers He had com pleted four taped addresser booked time on six radio sta tions and arranged throe tele vision appearances Material had been prepared for his ad vertising campaign and an cight page booklet A pamphlet was drafted and arrangements made to print 22000 copies He described the evening's work as his program" Political Phenomenon The peppery Mr Henderson a man of strong conviction Is widely regarded as the newest political phenomenon of the west who if he wins March 31 will bring a fiery but fresh viewpoint to the floor of th House of Commons "It he and Charlotte Whitton ever lock Imrns on the House floor it will be the verbal slugfest of mod ern times" a veteran parlia mentarian predicted here On eb 25 when the first nomination convention of or tage Neepawa was held Mr Henderson withdrew his name for the local candidate to pre vent a wide open split In the local association Rancor and bitterness were rampant on the convention floor The nomination was reluc tantly accepted by Weir who had been an MP for 27 years until his defeat at the hands of his PC epponent last year and who had hoped this year to retire from politics He accepted the nomination to pre serve unity in the strife torn constituency association Last Sunday Mr Weir an nounced hi withdrawal because of a sudden health breakdown Another convention was hastily summoned The convention was conducted with only minor evi dence of the earlier rancor In his acceptance speech Mr Henderson said "Three weeks ago the tide was running tn favor of the Two weeksgo it was not as strong and now the tide across Canada is turning in favor of the Lib erals" He said this was because taking the mask off the man who has been hypnotiz ing the Diclt 22 Orillia Carole Gray 20 Gravenhurst Marlene Dalton 16 Toronto Donna Mae Cadman 17 Moncton NB and Betty ulford 22 of Burlington These eight girls hav all been entered by sport clubs in their home towns The show lasts until next Saturday caning duck decoys from cedar conservation contest The Cuba D10CKS Carves Drrnvn Austin McCue one of the best were considered to have done lnd lhe st lhe cause hmth tr the They cleared cleaned booth for everyone to see up and planted a tract of the I almnal mirtnirrlk lau nouin Ci v' booth read for this morning's opening of the Canadian National Sportsmen's Show Muriel Bobyk holds free Star Vacation Guide booklet wooden decoy One Vote Grass Roots Henderson Is Picked To Win Prairie Seat GUIDE M0UNT1ES TO HIDDEN STILLS Winnipeg March 14 4BUP) Royal Canadian Mounted Police using a specially trained hound" are carrying out raids on Manitoba's moon shiners Since Monday the Mountics with the dog's help have rounded up more than 350 gallons of homebrew in the Toulon 30 miles north of and have arraigned five suspects on charges of possess ing illicit spirits A Mountie spokesman said today whiskey hunting was just one of many jobs a Mountie dog has to master He said the dog used its sense of smell to guide it to the stills Water Skis Without 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