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Only interested . parties.

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1977 DODGE % tan P.S.,
P.B., canopy. Phone 635-

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FOR SALE - 1973 GMC
heavy duty ‘2 tan 4x4 auto.
Turn out hubs. New box,
fallgaie and paint. Front
end brakes snd tran-
sruission recently redone.
Mechanically sound. f-
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of mounted fires. $4,000.
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1979 FORD Bronco. 45,000
kim. PS, PS. Auto. Asking
$7,000 or best offer. Phone
635-2505. .
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1976 GMC Suburban. % ton
4x4. Asking $5,000. Phone
635-3454.

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exhaust. White spoke
mags. Priced for quick
Sale. Phone 635-9245 after
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Special High Slerra. Phane
632-305.

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Increase rates and charges
In his filed tarlffs. -
Subject to consent by the
Motor Carrier Con-
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whi become etfective, on or
after, February 16, 1981.

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examined at the offices of
the undersigned carrier.

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made fo the Superintendent
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Watson buys new ship |

VANCOUVER (CP) - Environmentalist Paul
‘Watson has bought a new anti-whaling ship to
replace the scuttled Sea Shepherd.

The new ship, a former North Atlantic trawler, ia
already scheduled io attend several conservation

_ campaigns ‘around the. world, said Watson, head of

the Vancouver-based Sea Shepherd Conservation - ~

Society.

Watson said the society raised $110,000 to buy the
vessel through the sale of movie and book rights to
the Sea Shepherd story and from memiberahip In the

society.

Warner Bros. paid $250,000 for the rights to the
story in November, but Watson doesn’t expect the -
movie to be made right away, Watson said“Norton’
Publishing House of New York will be publishing his -
biography-next October and the film script will be ™
written after the book is published.

Under Watson's command, the first Sea Shepherd
rammed and seriously damaged the pirate whaling
ship Sierra near the Portugese shore July, 1979. The
Sea_ Shepherd, a converted British trawler, was
seized by Portuguese authorities and attempts by
Watson to repossess it legally proved futile.

When Watson returned to Portugal in December,
1979, he discovered his ship was to be turned over to
the company which owned the Sierra. He and two
friends sneaked on board, opened the sea cocks and
scuttled the Sea Shepherd an Jan. 1, 1980.

Watson said’ the new Sea Shepherd, with a |
volunteer crew of 12, sailed from Yorkshire Friday
"and will arrive in Scotland next week for refitting

and painting.

“in February the Sea Shepherd will aall ta the
coast of Labrador for another confrontation with
Canadian and Norwegian commercial sealing -
fleets, he said.-Watson was given a court order last =~
March banning him from the seal hunt for three
years, but he plans to defy the order.

“The Sea Shepherd will have British ownership
and a British flag and we won't go inside Canada’s
three-mile territorial limit,” said Watson. “So no
one can touch us in international waters.

"tye new Sen Shepherd will sai from Labrador to
a U.S. port and then proceed to the West Coast via
the Panama Canal. Watson said a side trip may be
made to Pery where pirate whaling ships are still

Later in the year the-ship will campaign against

Russian whalers which have a quota of 160 grey
whales in the Bering Sed this year. It will also at-
tempt to intervene'in the Alaska fur seal harvest.
In 1962 the Sea Shepherd will sail to Antarctica for
& major conservation campaign at the South Pole, ;

be sald,

- Rabbit- eaters on! increase

MONTREAL (CP) -- See
the genile, furry rabbit
nudging Easter eggs with a
quivering nose.

Now see his pink, furless
carcass hanging in your
supermarket,

These images are mainly
responsible for keeping
Peter Cottontail hopping
down the bunny trail and

out of the stewpots of

Canadian kitchens.
Nutritionists, however,
and those rare folk who eat
rabbit regularly, will tell
yots that the meat is lean,

tasty, high In protein and

easy to digest.

Most regular rabbit :

eaters in Canada are from
other countries,. par-
ticulariy Europe or China,’
where hare is common
fare.

““In France they eat an
average 9.5 pounds (4.3
kilograms) of rabbit per
year," Gerard Boutin of
the Quebec agriculture
department said in an in-

terview. “Here.we eat:-less >

thay, half ‘pound: | Xua. *:
*" rabbit

note ote,

grams).”’

Sales are’ picking up,
however, as rabbit farmers
and Boutin's department
do some low-key
promotion, The province's
third rabbit abattoir,
recently opened near
Quebee City, provides

some supermarket chains ©

with fresh meat.

Stores have found that

rabbits, which weigh

‘between 11 and 1.5
kilograms each, sell best in

a package of cut-up pieces,
rather than as whole
carcasses.

Boutin also had his
department's nutritionist
produce some rabbit

recipes. “It’s as easy to |

prepare as chicken, but
people are afraid to try.
People don’t change easily
their eating habits.”

’ But so far there has been
no big promotion. “We
want to wait until there's
more available before
Investing more in ad-

n vertising. "

“There are some 1,000
producers * in

- Quebec, Boutin said,
although few are in it full-
time and many close down
for winter because they do
not have adequate

bulldings. :

In 1979, they produced for
commercial sale some
107,000 rabbita, and the 1990
figures should top 150,000.
But Boutin estimated: the
real total is closer to

300,000, which includes |

rabbits sold directly to
regular customers and
those consumed by the
producers themselves, who
are the biggest rabbit ¢a-
ters. :

Why promote rabbit.

meat? Boutin saya it will
help make Quebec more
self-sufficient in food, since
the meat would cut into
imported beef con:
sumption. mo,

It would also help far--

mers diversify production
to get them through lean
years, :

~~ lookitig for variety, Even

“Consumers are also -

people. who enjoy rabbit
aften can’t get. it,”

One factor against —

supping on rabbit is its
price, which at $2.79 a
pound is about twice the
price of chicken. :
One reason for the higher
cost is that despite the

. rabbit's reputation for fast
. breeding — Mrs, Rabbit

can have as many as 45

- babies a year — they have

a high mortality rate.

Another. reason is that
only about 50 per cent of the
rabbit is edible, compared
with 75 per cent ofa
chicken, for example. And
the rabbit has to eat nearly
twice as much as the
chicken to produce a
kilogram of flesh, Boutin
explained.

A spokesman for

" Steinberg’s Ltd. said the

supermarket chain began
selling frozen rabbit in’
some siores less than a
year ago and fresh rabbit
about four months ago.
Stores in ethnic neigh-

* borhoods sell from 100 to
"190 fresh’ rabbils a week,.

Cheaper engine said on way

WINNIPEG (CP) — An
auto engine that is cheaper,
lighter and much more
fuel-efficient than con-
ventional’ models may be
on the market within five
years, says the. general
manager of the developing
firm.

“We've developed a new
configuration in which to
develop the extended
power stroke and we end up
with an engine that is
smaller, lighter in weight
and potentially quite a bit
quieter than a conventional
engine,” Jeff Owen of K-
Cycle Engines said in an
interview.

The engine was
developed in the early 1970s

_by Hoken Kristiansen, a

former aeranautical
engineer and now K-Cycle
Engines’ president. He
formed the company in
1974 and it now employs 28
people.

“The extended power
stroke extracts some of the
energy that normally goes
into the exhaust of a coh-
ventional engine and turns
it into, useful energy,”
Owen said

He said a car that gets

about 11 kilometres a litre
of gasoline using a con-

ventional engine vould get °

almost 16 kilometres a litre
with the K-Cycle engine.

Major manufacturers in
Italy and Japan have
shown interest in the K-
Cycle and America’s big
three auto makers — Gen-
eral Motors, Ford and
Chrysler — have contacted

Owen about the economical
motor.
. K-Cycle§ Engines

received a $300,000 grant
from the Manitoba
government last year to
build a new test lab, while

the National Research |

Council (NRC) has
allocated $340,000 in grants
to the enterprise over the
last three years.

The NRC financing has
expired and Owen is ap-
proaching other federal
government agencies for

more ald, The: company -

probably also will ask other
provinces for assistance,
he said.

‘“We're into the program
about five yeara now," he
said.

. “The first engine ran in
1977. We still believe we're

three to five years away

- from full development and
limited commercialization
of the engine. It’s a long-
haul process.”

Owen said the K-Cycle
isn't limited to use in
atitomobiles.

“The engine has very
definite applications in

industrial and agricultural

‘uses... such things aa
compressors, generators,

tractors or front-end
loaders. We're
aggressively pursuing

‘those uses right now.”

Japan has also
demonstrated an interest
in the motor, Owen said,
but added “Japanese man-
ufacturers are doing ¢x-
tremely. well on the world
market now and are
therefore: reluctant ta
change what they are
doing. id

Although the engine bas
proven to be a fuel-saver,
Owen stili has trouble

selling the Idea to investors

and governments.

“You still have that
challenge to overcome ihe
skeptics, reassure” those
people whoare predisposed

towards this sort. of in-
vestment and show them
that you can do what you-
say you can,”

Most test work on the
engine is -done on
dynamometers — a
machine that measures the
energy expended by a
motor — although about 40

hours of actual road work —-

has also been done. .

“The fuel efficiency is
the predominant reason for
being for the K-Cycle,"’
Owen said. But he
estimated the engine will
also be 25 to 30 per cent
lighter than conventional
models, another significant
advantage. -

“It will have  sub-
stantially less parts due to
the fact there is really no -
valve train, no cani lifters,
rocker arms, and valves in
the engine. Thia should
produce a less expensive
engine. We currently
estimate about a 25-per-
cent saving in the manu-
facturing cost.””

Owen said it should also
mean that once the engine
has been proven reliable, -
servicing should be less
expensive,

Reactor sales need some hype

OTTAWA (CP) — Sales

_ of Candu nuclear reactors

are sagging because of stiff
safeguards against the
spread. of nuclear
technology and because the
interriational sales pitch

lacks hype, a special study .

says,
It suggests the govern-
ment consider overhauling
its safeguards, most
stringent of exporting
countries, to attract
potential customers from
countries that hate signed
the nuclear non-
proliferation treaty and
agreed to international in-
spection.

But if relaxing the

safeguards is deemed

unaccaptable, then the
policy should at least be
made clear to potential
customers.

The study id by the
Toronto consulting firm of
Woods Gordon aa part of a
review of the nuclear in-
dustry by the energy
department, It has not yet
been made public of-
ficially.

it says existing Canadian
Policiés handicap the
Candu export program,

“The key example
concerns Canada's
safeguards policy which is
unclear ta some potential
customers and perceived to
be more stringent than that
of any other supplier.

!

“Since there ia an inter-

national nonproliferation
treaty, Canadian
requirements for a
bilateral treaty are con-
sidered t be not only
unrealistic but an un-
- warranted intrusion into
the nattonal sovereignty of
countries.”

The report also says
sales efforts haven't been
aggressive enough or pald
enough atiention to the
‘needs of potential foreign
customers. :

Customers. doubt
, Canada’s: ability to

reactors abroad, feet

frustrated at the lack of a
single marketing agency
that will deal with utilities

and local indusiry as-well
as governments . and

wonder at federal policies’ ,

that don't support Candy
sales.

Foreign sales of Candus
are handed by Atomic |
Energy of Canada Lid, a
Crown corporation, which
is “generally viewed as
unaggressive and not
commercially oriented."

AECL doesn't pay
enough attention to no-
technical considerations,
the report says.

The report suggesis the
federal government also
consider taking back spent
fuel for disposal in_
radioactive storage sites in

Canada.

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