European Stars And Stripes (Newspaper) - January 4, 1987, Darmstadt, Hesse An attn Ariton to woman Tilting bowl Fryatt Trade Wear Jack Brown or Gray bombing while Selling fruits vegetables Home computers and compact discs. In other countries it la a Man s Hal but men Here Wear other styles. According to Ono Tocy a shipment of fell Bow Feri arrived in borate by mistake and an. Enterprising Gatesman convinced aymara women that wearing them would guarantee Fertility As the idea caught on. A Model made of Rabbit hair by lha Borea Tini factory in Italy became a status Symbol among wealthier aymara women. One store. Which has been importing Bor Sarni bombing Tajo years now Sens tour to six a Day. For �75each, acc offing to sore Barriga the store manager. But the Borsalino factory which manufactured hats exclusively Lor the bolivian Market recently closed and much of the demand is now expected to be filled a bolivian hat company with a history As colourful As some of its hats. The factory in Sucre was founded in 1929 by Princess Clotilde Urioste. De Argandona a bolivian philanthropist who was Given her title by Pope Leo Hlll in the late 13th Century when her husband was ambassador to the Vatican. With inherited wealth she built a caste in Sucre surrounded by venetian style canals gardens and a Smalt zoo and started the hat factory to provide jobs Lor ins people today the factory produces 500,000 hats or unfinished fell hat casings a year supplying about half the bolivian Market. At least 2,000 makers in Bolivia Peru and Chile buy the casings and Mold them into finished bombing that sell for $10 to $20 apiece. Most of the steam powered machines at Charcas Glorieta Date to its founding. Manned by 160 employees they turn bolivian uruguayan and Argentine Wool into 35 different hat forms. Some based on us. And european designs. Spare parts and holds must be made by hand because he Lac tory hat built the machinery no Sanger exists says Mario Nosiglia Bella who has managed the Plant since immigrating from Italy in 1948 in my Hometown of Sagliano Micca there used to be nine hat factories he says. Now there is Only one. Twenty years ago everybody in Europe wore a hat but with the evolution of the automobile the use of hats has dropped considerably mat factories throughout the world Are closing " yet Charcas Glorieta is unable to keep up with demand in Bolivia. Soil has just purchased the italian hat company Panizza s entire la Clory with a $2 million Creo in $600,000 of in from the Agency Lor International development no Elgua says the expansion Wilt double he factory s output to i million Felt hats per year while enabling if to make 60,000 Rabbit hair hats. He says 30,000 Rabbit hair hats will be exported to Italy for Panizza s former clients. The enlarged factory will Benefit Farmers who will Supply the hair of at least 50.00q rabbits a year and Wool from 10,000 sheep according to company plans. The economic Impact will be extraordinary Nosiglia says. Cut Rogerl to Forat a Hoft a Tom or mtg Amoc Flung tent rat it Mai. Canada s legendary mounties the Glamour of nitty Gritty police work by Boris Weintraub National geographic trading purposefully up lha stairs Cut Roger l Taylor of the Royal Canadian mounted Potice enters the Large room spots his Man., and soils him a $10 provincial firearms permit. To that ditto transaction in a fish processing Plant does t sound like the stuff of the legends associated wih Iho mounties the red coals and lha Black horses. Sol. Preston and Nelson Eddy so bail. The truth about what a member of the forces Doe i is More prosaic than the legend made famous in song Story television serial and film but no less demanding. Taylor is commander of the three Man ramp detachment at Trepassey. On he windblown often fog bound Barren but Beautiful Southern Shore of Newfoundland s Avalon Peninsula. His detachment serves 5,300 residents spread Over 60 Rales of coast Road and an enormous area Inland where Only Hunters Caribou Moose and Mounlia dare to Bead. Unlike . Pour Force the hemp in Newfoundland and most of Canada is responsible for enforcing every level of Law Federal provincial and municipal. So when 155 tamil refugees showed up in lifeboats Olf the Newfoundland coast in August and were picked up by local fishing boats the Canadian coast guard notified Taylor. He sped lost. Shotts to make sure the refugees did t try logo ashore before a coast guard vessel arrived to collect them. It was no big to says when a restaurant is broken into in Trepassey or a fishing boat goes out without proper safely gear or a woman s body washes up on Shore or a pack of dogs roams through a Community in violation of the provincial dog act or a car strikes a Caribou or a Moose. Taylor or one of his two constables is pressed into service the North West mounted police the ramp s earliest incarnation was formed after Canada acquired what had been Hudson s Bay co. Territory in 1370 and found itself with the dual task of calming potentially antagonistic indians and suppressing illegal whiskey traders trom South of the . Border organized in 1873 a a paramilitary unit its recruits still undergo a six month Boot Camp style of Basic training the wimp s original 18 officers and 257 Enisley men Rode from Dufferin Manitoba to fort Macleod and fort Edmonton. Alberta. Their red Coats impressed tha indians who had had Good dealings with similarly Clad British troops and the whiskey traders were dispatched with Little trouble the Nup established its presence on the Frontier with minimal bloodshed Ana gained its greatest lame in maintaining order in the Yukon during tha Klondike Gold Rush of the ls90s in Honor of its work it was awarded the prefix Royal by King Edward Vum 1904. Gradually the in amp look Over most policing duties in Canada s provinces until a reorganization in 5920. Where it was Given its present name and made responsible for Federal Law enforcement and National Security Bui not Long All Erward one pro we after another signed up the mounties on a contract basis until now Only Ontario and Quebec retain save Juria diction for provincial Law enforcement the hemp moved into Newfoundland when the Island joined Canada in 1950 mounties no longer ride horses eau Elrain training was suspended in 1966. They Aren l responsible for National Security any More a separate Canadian Security intelligence service was created in 1884. Nor do mounties including women recruited since 1974 Wear red tunics except on formal occasions. The everyday uniform is a Khaki shirt Navy Blue lie. Navy Blue trousers with a yellow Stripe. And Hack ankle boots polished to a Mirror like Sheen. Taylor is the embodiment of today s me untie. He is a 36-year-old native of Nova Scotia with 17 years of experience on the Force who chafes like police everywhere Al paperwork and the limits imposed on him As he goes after suspects he is sure Are Quilty. There s one of our leading drug traffickers he says As a car approaches but lowing it and proving it in court Are two dil Lerent yet he will say with Little prompting and considerable Pride i m a member of the Royal Canadian mounted police. I could t see being on any other Force Taylor knows that to be a member of the Force he must adhere to All of its standards All of the time. He is so clean Cut dedicated and reserved that it seems incongruous lha when he and his family visited California last year he appeared on the television program of e Price is right. He won a Sola and a Sailboat. He seems to know almost everyone in his area including the troublemakers the drunks and the Nincompoop As he col s in. A wears a but has never Hwi it in anger even when a Cuce found Himsel Al Iho wrong end of a he talked i us assailant into putting it Down. To Pamey la no hotbed of criminal activity the Constable on duty had nothing to list on a recent overnight report. Taif or has t had a murder to investigate in his Lour years in Trepassey and i m not sure there s Evar been one hers he says. There Are even times when no policeman is on duty Calls Are then automatically diverted to is. Johns 85 Miles away and if necessary a Trepassey officer is contacted. Crime is on a downswing. Taylor says Only 27 men have been locked up this year and to percent of All cases have been cleared. But each year brings about a dozen major cases and numerous cases of Drunken driving speeding family disputes and accidents. One Day recently Taylor went to the Home of a Man whose brother had a i lacked him and a Nephew because of a land dispute. The Man and his Nephew were vocal and emotional often interrupting each other Taylor Sal quietly calming them gently leading them to answer questions with facts and taking a statement he offered some advice promised to visit the brother s Home to file an assault Cha be. And left it was nothing heroic just nitty guilty police work but emblematic of the ramp motto Maintien be Droit maintain the sunday january 4, 1987 the stars and St pipes Page 17
