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RUNS LIKE A NIGHTMAREPride Of The Pas Gets Festival Goers GiddyTHE PAS. Man.. Feb, 2 (Special) — All you skeptical sou them types, who think that the much-publicized “Shamaitawatamoose” 35 another delirious -figment JYnni the imagination of some slap-happy L rap per, please £ a Liter around if or a few pointers in norihland natural history.According lo some oiiy-slicker wise guys, who wouldn't believe their own mothers, the story behind this weird beast being exhibited here at Ihe * rappers festival is as follows;A hunch of r«d-ikhinftd r.rt-Imenft lit Shanuittan'Hi most iso-luted part of the province, are chuckling: up their buckskin sleeves this week because they figure Ihe3* have put one over 0n the white man at last.The same story claims that these Indians, although they are the most primitive people in Man-liannc, is » product of ihe sewing and ingenuity of Shamftt-teivva squaws/Regardless of that doubting-Thnmas lalk. from the big city, the lurry creature, now on show in the middle of town, Is the centre of attraction for gaping ccchvds and the main subject of idle conversation on The Pas street corners.As for me, I'm »til! of two minds about the whole thing. With one horn in front and one in hack and flaps or while fur over it* eyes, the Shamaltfl wain moos?; sure took* like ■ bed dream if I ever ea-w one.But. on the other hand, recall what happened to the ice worms of 394D festival fame.Everybody with a grain of brains knew they were Jiist a fake . , -spaghetti or something frozen in a block of ice/1itoba and are still living in the hone; Some months later, the most sur-***, have a sense of humor Ihat.prised citizens of all were the en-could hardly be called rudimen-jglneers of this northern, publicityihoax, when bona-fide arctic scien-tary.They say that the fabulous under water moose, which these red practical jokers shipped collect, to the ’festival committee, is strictly a phony.Some even id m» far a* to infer that the ungainly b^ast which look* like a- half-witted. blind caribou ikot in the midst of an attack of St, Vitu*lists Came on. • the scene with the real McCoy . . . genuine ice worms.Personally I'm just waiting for the next act in this northern extravaganza . . - that's when some scientific type takes a northern •Junket and comes back to the: bright lights with , , . you guessed it . - . an honest-to-goodness Sham-attawatamoose, horns and all.Just-to prove that the Sham-aUawatamoose isn't; the product of a publicity agent's imagination, Norm Matthews, a contractor at The Fa5Mstrad* dies the wierd, furry beast . .now on display at the annual northern Trappers’ festival, Mr. Matthews doesn’t have to worry about the creature tossing him overboard. The strange “under-water moose will never run or swim again lt;„ . iC it. ever did, thai is.
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Winnipeg Free Press
Winnipeg, Manitoba, CA
Thu, Feb 02, 1950
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