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Official Organ The Bulletin Irwinton, Ga. Friday August 4 1950
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WKat! 32 Consecutive Errors—
Response on the column devoted to Rangers and wildlife
violations was inspiring. Many asked for more information.
Here goes. Recently in South Georgia, 32 cases were “no
billed.” It seems to me this ought to be a
theme for all sportsmen’s clubs. Surely the
Wildlife Rangers who made these cases did
not make 32 corrective errors against mno- j
cent men. . ;
Federal Ranger Parker Smith, one of ■
this state’s truly great field men now work- j
. ing in Tennessee, eased up on a group of l
men shooting dove over a baited field and ,
I out of season. Parker was within a few feet '
। of the men before they realized his prefi-^
i enee. Their guns were suddenly silent.
Parker arrested the violators. While
talking to cue of the men, another slipped around Park
er’s back, picked up a heavy club and was about to bring ।
it down on Smith’s head when he suddenly wheeled
around and flipped his pistol in the man’s face with a .
stern warning, “Drop it”. The man dropped his club and |
was so shaken that he began to scb.
One man took his small son with him to dynamite a river. ■
The first charge of dynamite did its work. A large bass float
ed to the top and feebly flipped its tail. The youngster ran
into the shallow water to get this prize just as his father
tossed in another charge. The youngster was killed by the j
percussion. What a price to pay for fish!
SHU in There Pitching /
Rangers tell of one inveterate dynamiter who years ago
didn’t get his charge of dynamite away fast enough and today
has but one arm. He still engages in his nefarious industry
of killing fish and has been hard to catch.
Nature took things in its own hands when one dynamiter
reached for a fish the same time a cottonmouth moccasin
went for the same fish. It was a tie. A badly swollen arm,
three weeks in bed dangerously ill was the price.
There are counties that violators avoid. In one North
Georgia county the fines start at $40.00 and move up.
One coastal county cracks down on netters in closed
waters so severely, the violators are now few and far
between.
My hat is off to a Judge in Alabama. He was caught hunt
ing ducks out of season. The case came to his court. He read
the charge—took off his robe—stepped down in front of his
empty chair—fined himself $50.00 —paid off, put his robe back
on and resumed his dignified seat as Judge. He whacked on
his desk and loudly said: “Next case”.
Rough and Rugged Road Ahead
One farmer explained his position in regard to reporting .
a violator. “I know a fellow who reported a man who fished
with baskets. A few days later three of his cows mysterious-
Iv died. His house caught on fire while he was in town. His
water was poisoned. I can’t take that chance.” Here again
we get a close-up of the violator and the contemptable meth
ods of his operations. He is generally the type of person with
whom no decent man would associate. He has no scruples
concerning law and order and will not stop with game and
fish violations. American people are a patient lot but once
aroused Mr. Violator is going to travel a rough and rugged
roacL । — 1
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Discovery of the largest colony of American flamingo® •
known to science is reported by an expedition to Yucatan*^
Mexico . . . Two ivory-billed woodpeckers (almost extinct^;
have been spotted in Florida.. . Farmers who take a pot shoty
at every hawk and owl they see are making a great mistak^^
Remember —owls and hawks eat rats, mice and other ro^nte^
These “aerial police” hawks are on guard all day and owls
night AH small ones are beneficial... It’s a good thing some,
people don’t practice what they preach—
selves to death.
Angling
Angles
bq old Hi I
If prospects for catching fish have
fallen off somewhat in your locality,
and you own a farm or piece of rural
property, you can remedy the situa
tion under suitable conditions by
building a fish pond. This is being
done to a greater extent every year,
and in some areas these ponds are
actual lifesavers from the standpoint
of angling sport. ,
In the past few years, the U. S. Fish
and Wildlife Service tells us, farmers
in Texas have built 200,000 farm fish
ponds. Missouri ponds have increased
by 50,000 in ten years, and Mississippi
reports 22,000 fish ponds in the last
five years. This activity is gaining
popularity in Oklahoma, where from
7,000 to 8,000 new ponds a year are
built.
Interest in this project is spreading
all over the country. The Southern,
states have led so far, but a great
many more ponds are being formed
in the West and North, wherever lack
of sufficient water demands that arti
ficial means be put into practice. With
adequate tree and bush shading, and
aquatic plants and insects for food,
the ponds become havens for pan and
game fish.
Ponds as small as one-fourth of an
acre can produce fish if you manage
them carefully and treat them with
commercial fertilizers, in order to
keep up the level of plant and animal
life that the fish use for food. Your
pond may be stocked with black bass,
northern pike, pickerel or other
warm-water fish such as bluegills,
sunfish, yellow perch and bullheads, j
Where the average temperature of :
the water is cold enough, and other
conditions are suitable . . . brook,
brown, or rainbow trout may be
planted. A supply of minnows should
also be introduced.
Seed fish may be obtained from
your State Conservation Department,
or by netting them from nearby wa
ters if permitted. After they become
acclimated for a few months, take
your fly fishing or bait casting outfits
and enjoy some “personal” sport of
your own. Old Hi’s booklet “Fishing
For The Millions” will help you gain
a full measure of angling fun from
your fish pond. Send for your free
copy today, by addressing a penny
postcard to me, Old Hi, in care of this
newspaper.
Reports reaching this column indi
cate that great catches of drum, por
gies, striped bass, bluefish, flounders
and other inshore ocean fish are be
ing made in the Cape May, New Jer
sey area. A contest is in progress
there that is drawing fishermen from
many sections of the country.
By sending for your free copies of
Old Hi’s booklets “Salt Water Sports
Fishing” and “Pacific Coastal Fish
ing” you’ll find plenty of dope to help
you have better success wherever you
wet a line along the Atlantic, Gulf of
Mexico and Pacific seaboards.
CLEAN-UP — DON'T BURN UP!
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•THAT’S KU'S HOUSE, HE DIDN’T BOTHER ABOUT CIEAN-UP WEEK •
BY RONNIE SMITH |
(Ronnie Smith, aged 5, is the son
of the famed New York photog
rapher, Brad Smith. Though a
little young for this column, Ron
nie thinks—but let him speak for
himself.) j
I know I am only five. My big
brother always tells me that when
I want to play with him. He is 14
and is pretty smart, he says. I
hope when I am 14, I will be a
little smarter.
I always play l with my sister
Candy, and she is smaller than me.
.I think big
I brothers ought
!to play with
itheir little
brothers. My
brother and
his gang act
| like they never
were small. s
I think it is J
bad for big
j people to act
like they are
always right.
Ronnie Smith
When something breaks or the fish
bowl gets knocked over or the dog
barks, I always get blamed. No
body blames Candy because she is
a girl. And Ralph always goes out
when it happens so he is not
around when Mummy gets mad. 1
So I get it. I don’t think any
body five years old can do all the
things bad that Mummy says I do.
I think it is because Mummy has
to blame somebody and I am the
one in the middle all the time.
Jimmy, the kid next door, has it
the same way. He has two big sis
ters and they are always telling
him please be quiet and stay out
of the front room. Jimmy says he
has to stay out of the front room
so much he doesn’t know what it
looks like any more.
I think big people should listen
sometimes. Like yesterday when I
asked Ralph to please get the
crackers from the pantry and he
did and he took some himself and
when Mummy got mad and said
who ate my Ritz Crackers, Ralph
pointed at me and said he did.
Mummy said did you and I said
yes. She said all right, no ice
cream for you tonight. I tried to
say that Ralph ate some too, but
Mummy said never mind trying
to talk me out of it. So Ralph got
ice cream and I didn’t.
I am a good boy. I would just
like Mummy and Daddy to know
that too. And I wish they would
listen to me. I am not a girl like
Candy and sometimes I am right.
Thank you for writing this'
down for me. Now read it back;
and see if you got it right.