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DECEMBER 20, 1972 TERRACE BAY NEWS PAGE 13 What Caught my Eye - cont'd from page 12 farther north it grows. I can't agree with that, though. I know someone in the Lakehead who reaped in three or four crops of mighty, potent stuff last summer... While on the subject of marijuana, police in Elizabethon, Tenn. recently lost their prized marijuana plant. The six-foot plant was stolen after police had placed it in the window of a music store as: part of a community display. The idea was apparently to inform local residents of the appearance of the ill- egal weed. Officers said a long-haired young man entered the store and fled with the plant. The plant had been found growing wild .in Elizabethtown... SEASON'S GREETINGS, ALL! will be here in January again. Car prices? Well, I can't honestly say they're that much cheaper down here, but I would imagine they'd have to be, since Chry- sler's Canadian plant is right here and Ford still has several plants here. Remember Amarillo Slim, the Texas gambler I mentioned in this corner a few weeks ago, who accepted a challenge to make it down a River of No Return, with a $31,000 bet to prove his point? Well ol' Amarillo made the trip in the rubber raft unscratched. He immediately went to Las Vegas to collect his winnings and pro- mptly went looking for a little poker game. "That's the last time I bet my life on any- thing," he declared, as he counted the 620 $100 bills (his $31,000 bet included), "but IT'S RICH if anyone wants to play a little game of poker, Mince pie symbolizes the 'I'd be obliged." Someone did and within an riches of the East, brought hour, Amarillo and seven others were at a ny ape ee eee table in the Golden Nugget Casino with more than $200,000 in chips on the table. Sorry, don't know how Slim fared in the poker game... ' The quality of mari- juana grown in the Windsor area is so poor that a 16- year-old Windsor youth, originally charged with trafficing in 'grass rec- ently, received a condit- ional discharge in Provin- We sincerely wish a ~~ May It bring Our good cial Court for possession that you may enjoy ied 2 friends and patrons of a garbage bag full of . meee! Sue weed. The total amount a holiday season B oS a many moments seized -- more than 1,000 full to over- mifC\Egel hee 2 Be rich with grams of plant material-- : , ees re wouldn't be equivalent to flowing with eee 4 < peace and 100 grams of imported mar- life's best. : ' AN contentment. ijuana said Crown Atorney Ss f : Hugh Geddes. "You couldn't sell it,".said the Crown Attorney, stating that Essex County marijuana was "a lot of energy tu harvest for a little sensa-- tion." What it amounted to was that you'd have to smoke 10 "joints" of the local stuff to get the same effect of the imported variety. The majority of marijuana From The Staff Of The coming into Canada originates in Mexico. The Crown re~ BANK OF MONTREAL marked that marijuana tends to lose its potency the Schreiber Branch