Saale cea Tae a so é ’ (( TERRACE-KITIMAT Winners VICTORIA (CP) — RCMP were combing dense bush on northwestern Vancouver Island for five or six persons Tuesday after arresting 17 persons and selzing 20 tons of marijuana ina dawn raid on two large vessels. The marijuana had a street value of $92 million. The raid involved 60 RCMP members, about 300 Canadian Forces ground personnel, an Argus tracking Pireratt from CFB Comox, and the desttoyerescor! HMCS Qu’Ap It occurre: at 6:0 a.m. PDT at Sydney Inlet, about 250 kilometres northwest of Donna Bentham | both winners in the Die Rit tec) dtery wed tie Herald i Police sieze 20 tons here, and al Kilometres north of t 10 where 13 1-2 tons of oe . worth $20 million, was July, 1978. Police seized the do-metra Samarkanda, originglly built War to ue submarl . was not immediat metre pleasure Worid neta. It known is a 16.5- craft, Whitecap, registered in Seal tile, Superintendent Gi of the RC the Qu’Appelle bloc! entrance to Sydney . tte Atri tn Heol tte ednaing haters inthe sertion at waatey * » Hs rald tt sepeieatien et evacsty dt tee eg ert abe beet thy ger ut thie werk Barr tty ther eb ties enon bas esbite an vat aft (left) and Ramona Faithful were 's Letters To Mom contest. t, after police. Guring the night, that tha: Samarkanda had gone aground in the inlet during low tide. _ Teresa Derkson, also is a winner, , shows off one of the three bieyele prizes, . Clear if those arrested would be taken to Tofino, about.60 kilometres. south . of, the scene, for thenight, or would _ , be. brought. directly. ‘to, Vie- Two police boats and a’ -toria. Zodiac assault craft were used to swoop down on the Samarkanda ag the marijuana was being un- loaded. All but two of the mediately captured 16 of them Gardiner said the arrests were made without incident, He said charges had not been iald, and it was not “We have the. cholee of. ing them here by air or bring ; by sea," he sald. “I'm not sure which cholce the of ficers in the field are” making. Police dogs aid hellcog- ters were being used to find the five or six persons police eslimated to have escaped: When police struck, about 500 bales of marijuana had been stashed in the bush. ‘TORONTO (CP) + Erma "and Alice and their fellow volunteers don't know anyone from Field, Qnt,, which was hit by floods three weeks ago, or from tornado- whipped Wichita Falls, Tex, But by the time "theae . ‘disaster areas are back to normal, folks there will owe a lot to Erma, Alice and thousands of other Men- nonite women of southern Ontario, whose world- famous homemade quilts will be auctioned this coming Saturday to raise money for crisis victims the world over. Erma Shantz and Alice Koch are two of 17,000 adult Mennonites in Ontario, moat of whom have a hand in the annual fund-raising Ontario Mennonite Rellef Sale, which will be held in the arena at New Hamburg, just weat af Kitchener. Laat year the sale of about ts raked in $70,000 — nearly half the relief sale's total $160,000 proceeds, There never has been a quilt left unsold at-any of the sales, which . were ingugurated 13 years ago. The sales have ralsed over $1.25 million. Quilts have never. been more popular, Department stores say quilts and com- forters are among the best- seliing items, quilt galleries and apeciaity shops are springing up, quilters’ guilds are forming and community groups are enrolling both . men and. women An quilting Classes. None of this surprises the Mennonite women, who. s¢e crowds line up each year by 8 'a.m. on the day of the quilt auction. It's their moment of @lory after a long winter's work and it's quite a show, said quilt convener Mrs, Shantz of St, Agatha, near - Kitchener. ' “But I think people who pay a lot for a quilt are doing it ta make a donation to the Mennonite fund, not because they think the quilt is worth that much,” A record-breaking $2,500 was, paid for ane quilt last year, But a lot.of labor and material goes into each one. For, example, eight women spent about 300 hours each ona quilt that sold for $1,300, - ‘The Herald, Wednesday, May 23, 1979, Pare The women themselves ‘don't make a profit. Alice Koch of New Hamburg has made 20 quilts for relatives - and countless more for rejief auctlona— and never earned 4 penny for her work. : Her reward, she suid, is “visiting” for a day with up to 15 women around a quilt frame, and the “satisfaction — some people help of creating some.hing. at-' tractive with your own. hands,” “Often we use “Jeftover seraps to make. quilts for around the house,” she eaid. “It'g - good - to. make something beautiful from something. that otherwise would Amount ha nothing.” it looks good for wheat crop | WINNIPEG (CP) — weather has sweetened | the outlook for possible record- high export prices for Canadian wheat that could exceed the $4-abushel level early next year, Two market analysts Tuesday agreed an expected - world-wide drop in: cro production this year, ca _ by ativerse growing con- ditions in some countries, could mean record prices by early 1980. “I'm pretty sure we're . fon in some ness supply,” Lynn Malmberg of Alberta Agriculture said in. an in- terview Tuesday, Malmberg said such a situation could result in price peaks in the $6-to-$6,50 a bushel range “probably in the first quarter of 1 But Peter Perkins of United Grain Growers, while - also predicting prices in the - $4-a-bushel range, . sald: the level “fs nowhere near as impressive as $4 was in 1974 because the dollar has shifted s0 much in value.” World demand rocketed wheat prices to a high of $4.07 a bushel in December . of 1974 although the average for the 1974-75 crop year was $5.26. a bushel, The Canadian wheat board's asking price basis Thunder Bay Tuesday ‘was $4.75 a bush: Malmberg said that on a global basis, © wheat Production could be down 20 ‘tod0 million tonnes this year with the most notable reduction coming in the. Soviet Union. “They (Soviet Union) had some planting problems last ll with the winter wheat room and winter kill was rough,” he said. . - yields because ita late and spring grains tend to yield. “Taal year the Soviet Union produced about 120 malllion tonnes of . wheat - Malmberg sald there coal be a ié-percent drop to 100 million tonnes this year. | He said It must be kept in mind & 10-per-cent in the Soviet wheat crop its more than half the toal Canadia nadian ov Wand thi oan have ainerten ports the United States . and ‘Canada could produce slightly bigger crops than - last year with good growing conditions, Both countries. also are experiencing weather-related spring delays, Perkins sald that while world stocks still-are‘ quite. hi.ge, a lower crop this year will reduce it an that is the - sort of circumstance where yougeta more buoyant price — for wheat.” . i “If we bad a crop failure this year, we would atill have enough surplus around to cover the needs. 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