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THAT MONSTER AGAINHuntBy FRED CLEVEBW3Y* A University of Manftoba professor, is seeking equipment and skilled helpers to return to Lake Winnipegosis this summer as the only Canadian scientist to be officially interested in the exist; ence of Manitoba’s sea monster!Dr. James A. McLeod, the university’s head zoologist, hopes to search the lake this summer.for either Manipogo himself or its remains. He hopes to use akin diving equipment in:, the search.Normally, scientists are skeptical about sea monster reports.Dr. McLeod, however, has-been talking to a number of Manitoba residents be believes are. sincere when they report seeing something in the lake.We .can't say for sure thatthey didn't see anything,” Dr. McLeod said Monday, “so until we identify what they saw as something commonplace or otherwise, we can’t call them liars.**Will Seek BonesThe zoologist, has little hope of sighting the monster, a six-to-eight-fooMong object that has been reported in the lake for theDr» James McLeod* end $em* of the file material he has on the LochNess monster.ndagtys0anISga5Itaas*r-ey1,en*it;e. This is a wooden model , of a bone found in Lake Winnipegosis. It could have come from a huge reptile*t,tdt.«ie*fdj-d*niye-diys.tom1-toceti3 New Pools OpenIn Saint Bonifacelt;past number of years. But He does hope to find some bones or other remains of an animal not' common to the region. .Dr. McLeod first searched the lake in I960, and came back saying he believed there was “something irf: the lake which was not common to Manitoba.He said at that 'time he believed a monster, if one did exist, could be caught only with large herring nets.This year, Dr. McLeod has switched his tactics. He wants' to use skindivers, in the hope that if the monster itself is not sighted, then the divers might discover some kind of remains.This belief is bolstered by the find, back In the 1930s, of an unusual bone by a district resident, Oscar 1 Frederiekson. - Although the original bone was destroyed by fire, a model had been made, and Dr. McLeod said this led him to believe that some other remains must be present.Dr. McLeod said Mr. Frede-rickson has offered to take him to the spot where he found the bones, and would help him search.To do the job properly, the zoologist, said, he would need a 30 or 40-foot boat, one on which a search party could live for. a few days, and two skindivers.Two divers, both zoology graduates, how are working for the provincial department of fisheries. If they could be ob- ^ tained for a week, Dr, McLeod I ext said, it is possible that some' discoveries of interest might be made. The spot to be searched is 20 miles from Burrow’s Landing, on the north shore of the lake.finEcFr1toitolshefcJgo\forstutor,hacerrifunSha\reqCwaitsfromihaibuc1plySighted YearlysecofAueecindrecwoprlt;teihamflcwoofbycapasuiPiithibeWhatever the results of the proposed search, Manipogo's season now is upon the province. Each year since 1955 parties of swimmers, fishermen or sightseers have reported sighting the monster around late July or early August.Last year, for the first time it was suggested that Manipogo (the name was scalped from Laket Okanagan's monster, Ogo-pogo had a mate, and a family. Seventeen people reported seeing the monster at Manipogo Park last year and ^one group said they saw the monster with a mate and baby swimming behind.Although the monster first began getting publicity around 1955, Cyrus Field Ross, a former Manitoba government timber inspector, reported a sighting as early as 1935.All descriptions tally. The1monster is always described as j having a single horn protruding, ^ from the back of the .head like i a telescope, with a slate grey Pa body which curves through the ! water, humps ‘ protruding. The monster has been credited with speeds up to 15 miles an hour.The monster, if one does exist, has always managed to elude cameras. The closest anyone came to getting a picture was last year, when Tom Locke of Dauphin, a government land inspector, spotted the monster while picnicking at a park with his wife and family, •He claims to have seen two monsters, one a baby following.In his excitement he dropped his still camera to take home movies. He discovered later that his movie camera was out of film.Skeptics always point out that the monster is always sighted at the height of the tourist season, when its sighting will do resort areas the most good.No one has yet suggested that an asdic sounding device — used to locate submarines, be used to locate Manipogo. ..Dr. McLeod says he has some pictures taken at Loch Ness, Scotland, aftfer such a device was used to find that lake's monster, but he doesn’t know where he might obtain the equipment to use in Manitoba.haofliketothitatirlioCOW(Fish In WellscamnilspmolisWidr-pritWlasThe last of three swimming pools being built in St Boniface will officially open in Windsor Park this afternoon.• , % 9 * - .The three pools, purchased by the city this-year,.cost a total of $192,000. The other two opened in the. Norwood flood bowl, July 17 and Proveneher Park July 29.Parks board' secretary, Doug Beaulieu. said that Tuesday. and Thursday evenings between 6:30 p.m. and 9 p.mi the pools, are reserved for ”adults only.’’ The one remaining open-air pool , in St. Boniface, at Kiwanis Happy-land Park, has been closed; probably for (fee. balance of the summer. It was 'closed • immediately after seven-year-old Mark Glea-son drowned there July 25.Mr. Beaulieu said that wasn’t the cause for closing the pool. Opened in .1938, St. Boniface decided this .year that, once the new pools were opened that the pool, would close so that a new water circulation system could be installed.Tenders have been called.” said Mr. Beaulieu, “But we don’t expect to reopen the pool until next year.” Last year, new bathhouse, costing more than 133,t»0,'...was installed at the Howjtend Park pool on Marion Street. The installation of the circulatory system, along with a chlorination system, is the' final work. scheduled for: modernizingthe pool.the most serious of believers in the lake area have offered an explanation that an underground channel exists for 40 miles between Lake Winnipegosis and Lakp. Dauphin, because fanners living between the lakes often find fish in their wells.'Dr. McLeod isn’t too enthusiastic, about this theory. He says that many .underground streams produce fish, and discounts the possibility that the monster might live in such a channel during the winter, appearing only, during, the summer irionths,'' \It was once flippantly suggested that the Manitoba government undertake a monster-catching expedition! with the thought that Manipogo might be transported to a more tourist-accessible: location — for example, behind the Legislative Building in the Red River.afinteesto5*1PIthmela01elSiwTihibiVIitti
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Winnipeg Free Press
Winnipeg, Manitoba, CA
Sat, Aug 05, 1961
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