Word: minked
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...DELIA arrived in Alaska in 1948, worked for a while in Ketchikan, then drifted over to the Skwentna region, where he built a cabin and started trapping. Skwentna is good mixed-fur country-mink, marten, lynx, wolf, otter, beaver, muskrat. Fifteen years ago, trappers got good money for these pelts. Minks, for example, brought about $36 each; today Joe Delia is lucky to average $10. Lynxes, on the other hand, have improved. You can get $60 apiece-when you find one: the reproduction cycle has made this animal scarce...
...alone we'd starve to death," he says. "Oh, we could make it all right, but just the trappin' even for a single man, you can hardly afford the gas for your outboard engine. Trappin' for me is more a fill-in now. I sold 53 mink and 45 marten this fall for $1,100, and sold about $900 worth of pelts this spring. Guidin' is my main income now. As a guide for one of the big outfits, I get $45 a day, eleven hundred a month guaranteed. By taking out my own hunters...
Their prospects are not bright. House members have introduced 360 bills to impose quotas on imports as varied as mink, zinc, lead, electronics products, honey and strawberries. In the Senate, Indiana Democrat Vance Hartke is likely to press for mandatory quotas on foreign steel, and Western Senators probably will try to make the meat-import quotas still more restrictive. Even the most zealous supporters of free trade in Washington see little possibility of much modification in the bill...
Marianne Faithfull, 23, British singer-actress and daughter of Baroness Erisso of Austria, discovered how costly mink can be. The onetime girl friend of the Rolling Stones' Mick Jogger was caught last Christmas at London's Heathrow Airport trying to smuggle a $2,000 black mink coat in from Rome. In magistrates' court last week, the judge added $1,200 to the price...
Last week Governor Nelson Rockefeller signed two bills banning the sale of certain rare furs and hides in New York State. Manhattan Furrier Jacques Kaplan is keeping in step with public sentiment by showing mink furs treated to look like tiger and leopard skins in his fall collection. On the other hand, worried about the country's new environmental awareness, David Klapisch, vice president of Southern Trading Corp. (reptiles), complains that "conservation is good, but there has to be a limit...