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First-ballot choice of the nominating committee for new president of the convention was spectacled, Nebraska-born Winfield Edson, 45, pastor of the First Baptist Church of Long Beach, Calif. A low 80s golfer, camera fan and chinchilla breeder on the side, Winfield Edson has boosted his church's membership from 1,500 to 3,724 since 1939, has averaged a speech a day to do it. Not content with expanding, his church has pushed members out to form ten new churches in the Long Beach area...
Hazards of Fashion. Aside from the hazards of such fads (rebelling designers have threatened to plug such furs as sable and chinchilla), the wild scramble for mutations has confused the public. The real value in a mink coat is the quality of the fur itself and the long hours of skilled workmanship required to make a coat. With the new Jasmine mutation, for example, Manhattan's Bergdorf Goodman might pay $4,950 for the skins, $1,800 for the labor.* Rent and other overhead expenses would bring the cost of the coat to $7,300, and Bergdorf...
...chimpanzees, a baboon, five sheep, 40 chinchilla rabbits, three white rabbits, 25 dogs, several cats, and innumerable chickens, mice, and guinea pigs all presently make their home in the oldest of the Med School's three Animal Farms...
...First Eleven. Once chinchilla was a prized fur, adorning the robes of kings and potentates. Annual world sales were as high as 78,000 skins in 1900. But gradually the mountains of South America, where the chinchilla lived, were swept almost clean, and the fur fell from fash ion. In 1923, an Anaconda mining engineer named Mathias Chapman captured eleven of the remaining wild chinchillas, brought them from the Andes to Southern California in an ice-cooled crate. He started breeding them and founded the domestic chinchilla industry. From his original eleven animals sprang virtually all the estimated...
Other success stories are hardly less impressive. A Maine trawler skipper bought his wife a pair to keep her company while he was at sea, has since retired on the chinchilla income. A Connecticut tobacco grower took up chinchillas as a sideline, gave up his 7 5-acre tobacco farm when he began to net $20,000 a year on his animals. Pro & Con. But the breeders are careful not to make a large-scale test of the market for skins. Not for another five years or so will the U.S. chinchilla population be big enough (estimated as high...