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"_ 'MONDAY, APRIL i 1948 THE DAILY TIMES-GAZETTE BE a J PAGE FIFTEEN Chinchilla Ranch InHome Basement (CP)--Did you ever hear: Wining operating a ranch basement? It's simple--if you Ba 138% -to 'buy the right pair ye of animals -- Charles "Addison, a. 29-year-old €x-R.C.AF. veteran, proves that it can be done. He runs a basement i Bar-X I his home with the most "expensive fur-bearing animal in the . world--th e Andes chinchilla, Fully grown, Waste button-eyed mammals weigh in at 16 to 22 . ounces. At $625 apiece, some are -worth more than their weight in gold. And the female of the species --because it's heavier--is more val- {Jusble than the male. Chinchillas' are rather exclusive hig Few people in Canada own any on the heof, and as far as' knows, no Canadian *.owns one on the shoulder. That's because there are only 25 genuine Chinchilla coats in the world. At "$25,000 a coat even the rich must wear oy, and like it. Addison' isn't in the business to raise coats. Chinchillas are too 'new to this continent to allow for 2 "anything but cultivation for breed- ing. purposes to get the industry on | ~its teet. 'This. applies 'even to the world's i' largest ranch--Chapman's, at Ing- | low | mals Calif. They have 2,200 ani- eqdivalent of 18 full- length coats) and won't be pelting ATTENTION BUILDERS! | BEFORE YOU BUILD You With @ SAND ® GRAVEL ".e LOAM eo CINDERS _® YARDS LEVELLED * We Can Supply You With Fill or Draw Fill: Away. IMMEDIATE DELIVERY ; 'With our modern equip: 'ment we offer the Lowest Rates, D.R. BROWN CONTRACTOR R.R. 1, Oshawa PHONE 3744W5 (Phone Day or Night) We Ca to any extent until at least 1955. M. F. Chapman. introduced chin- chillas to North America when he brought 11 from their native haunts in the Andes Mountains in 1920. Addison's six little gold mines, like all the other animals in the 313 ranches in the United States and iginal 11, They breed about twice a year and can bear young when they reach the age of nine months. Each will live from 12 to 15 years with their fur being marketable at 18 months. Raising chinchillas is no great tax on brain and patience. They'll stay healthy if youll keep them clean, out of draughts and in tem- peratures between 50 and 80 de- grees. A chinchilla dines but once a day and its food bill for the whole year is only $3. Chinchillas don't like to live alone, So, if you want a contented animal, "you'll pair him up. MILES OF WOOD Annual car loadings by Canadian pulp and paper mills would fill a train stretching from coast to coast. Canada, are offspring of those or-. Now is the time to re-surface your driveway. Phone 2727W-2726_ ARMSTRONG FUELS | CINDERS @ RADIOS and Electrical Appliance Repairs © Household Wiring and Electrical Fixtures ® ALL PARTS AND WORK- MANSHIP GUARANTEED FOR 90 DAYS 78 Simcoe N. Phone 736J Guaranteed ROOFING! ® Asphalt Shingling ® Built-Up Flat Roofing ® Materials and Work- manship Guaranteed! L. BIRD PHONE 3055J HARDWOOD FLOORING Floors Laid, Sanded and Finished Phone 3744W1 M. LEGGETTE Fe = ANDERSON BROS. PLASTERING Stucco & Brick-Laying, also Repairs PHONE 547W 369 DREW ST. STOKER SALES & SERVICE Top Quality Anthracite, -- Bituminous and Coke. Hard and Soft Wood. The ROBERT DIXON Co. Ltd. Phone 262 Oshawa STAFFORD BROS. Monnments) Works Open Every Day. And Evenings PHONE WHITBY 552 818 Dundss St. E Whitby TH WE REPAIR @ WASHING MACHINES ® RADIOS © - 3 ® VACUUMS All 'Work Guaranteed CONNOR WASHING MACHINES Limited number available for Immediate Delivery LIGHTING FIXTURES FOR THE HOME Hundreds to Choose From Electrical Agencies 12 BOND '0SHA ST. EAST WA Phone 3287 | Times.Gazette classiiied ads pay-- Why not try one today. COAL-COKE Immediate Delivery [5 50 ARMSTRONG FUELS 59 Church St. Phones 2727W--2726 J GE PALOOKA No Specific Date 3 By Ham Fisher FINE WATCH REPAIRING Our Specialty FELT BROS. Established 188¢ 12 SIMCOE ST. SOUTH Brantford Roofing and Builders' Supplies ~ McLAUGHL!N COAL & SUPPLIES, LIMITED Phone 1246 ' FOR YOUR WIRING AND APPLIANCE REPAIRS call CHRISTIAN'S ELECTRIC & IARDWARE PHONE 1000 MAKES CLD WASHERS WORK LIKE NEW WASHER SERVICE QUICKER CHEAPER BETTER Phone 3800W Jock BIDDULPH aviontzss JS suaten 68 SIMCOE SY. "Look for the Store with the Yellow Front" INSULATE AND SAVE! Fuel-oil burners report up to 109% saving in oil. Enjoy extra Lh by Insulating YOUR For free estimate warmt home now. phone: SEALTITE INSULATION 506 SIMCOE 8., OSHAWA, ONT. PHONE: 3136R or 3258W By Dudley Fisher ALICE IS VERY MODEST, "By Nor orman Marsh YOU HAVE BOASTED OF HOW GREAT YOU ARE ~ \Y No, DANNY 4 HAVE 2] «MADE A WAGER--1 TM GOING TO GVE YOu ABIDE BY MY WORD!{ XJ#] [commie 15 Taian 70 THE LJ CANNIBAL VILLAGE~~ By Alex Raymond 1 TOLD YOU YOUR HUNCHES WOULD GET YOU IN TROUBLE WITHOUT DESMOND.. SO T JUST FLEW A \ OVER ON MY OWN MioLane city's CORONER HAS ASKED PHIL T0 HIS HOME TO HEAR AN EXPOSE OF CONDITIONS IN THE CITY ~~ Bur Two OF ED FIXXER'S MEN GET THERE FIRST. How ABOUT 17; ARTIE-- 15 HE-- 7 wo Not ASIEN OF LIFE! y rover PREOD'S Lo 15 THEN PITCHED DOWN THE CELLAR STEPS... THERE! WHO CAN SAY HE DIDN'T TRIP AND FALL DOWN THE STEPS 2 A Game of Solitaire WE'LL JUST SPRINKLE SOME OF THIS AROUND AND / Y'60T A THEN BREAK THE GLASS! i MAKE TRIPPING K MORE NATURAL! Cops. 1948, King Festores Syndicate, lac, World rights reserved, By Jimmy Murphy, HELLO, TOOTS! HOW'S AUNT TRILLY ? HAS SHE HAD ANY LUCK IN HER NO, CASPER, SHE'S YES, FOLKS, FROM NOW ON YOUR AUNT TRILLY IS GOING TO PLAY HARD TO GET. I'M GOING TO BE ALOOF:-- I'M GOING TO GOING OUT NOW. SHE JUST TOLD ME SHE WAS GOING TO TRY A NEW SYSTEM. TRAVEL ALONE UNTIL I GET MY MAN. TOOTS, SHE'S TH HERSELF. AT EVE oor 8 IN TOWN AND DIDN'T * GET A TUMBLE===' NOW SHE'S JONG TO |. BE ALOOF---AND IF YOU _ Royal Knee Action By Mel Graff YESTERDAY THE KING OF Nei Syndicas, toc, World rights reserved: HONEST, ZERO-I KNOWT AINT DREAMIN MY EYES ARE OPEN-AN' THE ISLAND CAME ON OUR SHIP TO VISIT CAPTAIN DICKENS I NEVER SAW A REAL KING : T{_BEFORE- 'T WAS KINDA SCARED TO LOOK AT HIM=AN'T GUESS HE WAS KINDA SCARED, T00-'CAUSE WHEN HE SAW ME HE LOOKED AWFUL SURPRISED ~ MOON MULLINS OT'S GOOD FER SOMETHING) 'Win was wopLd || SEEMS TO THER SQUAWKIN' YOU MIND HAVE E ME A \ LOOKING AT \ DISAGREED "Heat: MY TON NUE, WITH ME - / ACHE Don i SUPERMAN 1 WANT TO USE IT TO VARNISH A TABLE TOP" SWELL MOVIN' J" AN'HE SAID, ANOTHER coooessT} ~THEN HE KNELT DOWN ON HIS KNEES IN FRONTOF ME- (T WAS }: JUST LIKE T WAS A QUEEN IN A PITCHER = Pill Line Up N\~ / PUMPHREY AA [aVE ME A 2 7 | NASTY KNOCK MY KNOB. © 3y Willard "HEY!, I THou WAS MR. PUMPHIREY on) CAL LED TH' ocTo FOR. HE GOT SHOT-- REMEMBER? THOSE INVISIBLE OGIES SET OUT TO PUBLICIZE MY SECRET IDENTITY JUST TO SPITE ME. BY NOW, IT MAY EVEN HAVE HIT THE NEWS BROADCASTS... WHAT A MESS, OGY. THAT FELLOW'S SO HARD OF HEARING, HE GOT THE NAME CLARK KENT ALL MIXED up.) AND. A VERY RELIABLE GENTLEMAN RUMORS TRAVEL QUICKLY, AND eresenTLy,| : AT THE PLANET OFFICE... ASSURED ME THAT SUPERMAN 1S MARK BRENT.) IT'S BEI ALL.OVER G WHISPERED OWN THAT SUSERUMAN S ALTER EGO ~~ MARK BRENT? NEVER HEARD | OF HIM, df BO hk wes BEES HRN ETE EY