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VOL. 91 NO. 39
Want to Go Buffalo Hunting) Alaska
Good Place If You Get an Invitation
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MRS. DAVID KEENER
BY HAZEL MITCHELL
How would you like to go buffa
lo hunting? Well, you should be
in Alaska.
Mrs. David Keener, the former
Martha Malone, who has been liv
ing at Fairbanks, Alaska, for the
past 4 years, has recently been on
such a hunt and she describes it
as one of the most exciting events
of a lifetime.
In writing her parents, Mr. and
Mrs. George Malone, Mrs. Keener
said that women, traditionally
thought to be poor shots, harvest
ed some of the better trophies. Os
the seven women participating, all
obtained their bison and at least
two of them bagged buffaloes that
will go down in the record book.
Mrs. Keener’s animal weighed
close to 900 pounds, dressing out
700 pounds or more of prime bi
son meat. “It is very much like
steak, perhaps a trifle sweeter,”
she said.
The hunt, sponsored by the Alas
ka Department of Fish and Game,
was an effort to effect better game
management and to protect the
crops of homesteaders in the Del
ta-Clearwater area. Each year,
about this time, Mrs. Keener re
ports, crops are ruined by
great numbers of bison who con
verge on the fields at harvest
time. This year, they found hun
ters there ready to harvest them.
Fifty Hunters Drawn
Fifty hunters whose names were
drawn from over 3,000, participa
ted in the hunt which took place
in an area 100 miles from Fair
banks, near Fort Greely, between
the Alaska Highway and Jarvis
Creek. Seventy-five per cent of
the animals taken were mature
bulls, as regulations prohibited the
taking of calves, cows accompanied
by calves or white bison. Using
a 721 Remington 30-06, Mrs. Keen
er bagged her animal within an
hour and a half from the starting
time.
While it is too early to evaluate
long-range effects, officials say
they have accomplished the major
goal of keeping the animals away
from the farmers’ crops.
As to what grows there —“prac-
tically anything,” Mrs. Keener
writes, “only more of it and in
larger sizes.” Oats, barley, spinach,
mustard, cabbage, green beans, i
Brussel sprouts, tomatoes are a
few that she says are grown in our
49th State. The climate and farm
ing conditions resemble those in
northern Middle Western states.
The short hot summers provide
20 hours of daylight in some pla
ces and vegetables and berries
grow to huge size without losing
their flavor.
Summer temperatures some
times go as high as 100 degrees,
Mrs. Keener reports.
High Cost of Living
Living conditions are somewhat
high too, she says. Efficiency
apartments rent for $l5O per
month, a loaf of bread is 57 cents,
eggs, $1.19 per dozen and 10
pounds of sugar costs $1.89.
Mr. and Mrs. Keener and daugh
ter, Becky, love Alaska and in
tend to make it their permanent
home. They have purchased a lot
and will build sometime soon, pro- 1
bably next spring. Mr. Keener, an
employee of the City of Fairbanks,
also attends the University of Alas
ka. Mrs. Keener is active in church
work and is known for her artis
try in cake decorating.
“Fairbanks, about the size of
Perry, is quite beautiful at this
season,” Mrs. Keener says, “all
green, gold and red. The people
are friendly and helpful. The se
vere winters make neighbors more
dependent on each other, remind
ing you of the stories you’ve read
of old pioneer times..
The buffalo hunt is over now,
she writes, as the government al
lowed only 50 to be taken, but
Alaska's forests and plains are
_full of other big game and_fui>_
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PERRY, HOUSTON COUNTY, GEORGIA, THURSDAY, SEPT. 28, 1961
bearing animals. Trappers and
hunters take many million dollars
worth every year. Fur farms are
growing in number, raising chiefly
mink and silver and blue foxes.
Some Opposed Hunt
Cattle farming and dairying are
other important industries. Some
farmers protested the buffalo
hunt on the grounds that any ex
cess buffalo should be given to in-
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terested parties in Alaska for ex
perimental purposes with the view
to developing the meat industry.
One, who has a grazing lease on
Umnak Island in the Aleutian
chain, where he is raising both
sheep and cattle said he would
like to add buffalo to his herd.
The great scenic beauty of the
country and the abundant fish and
game are unsurpassed anywhere
in the world. Many streams have
never been fished and trout and
salmon are plentiful in all of them.
The salmon catch alone is valued
at 100 million dollars each year.
Perhaps you’d like to pan fori
gold ... to fill your pouch with
the glittering sand simply by swir
ling gravel and water in a pan un
til the heavy gold settles in the
bottom. Mrs. Keener says this is
one of the favorite pastimes of
visitors to Alaska.
All kinds of adventure await you
in Alaska, according to Mrs. Keen
er. If you’re planning a trip there
this year, better make it soon. The
first snow fall is in September and
it stays until the first of May.
When winter really sets in, she
says, day and night look like “late
twilight” and lights must be bum
! ed constantly.
Holland Appointed
District Manager
: For the World Book
Frank Holland, ex-teacher, now
“salesman extra-ordinary,” has
i been selected as World Book Dis
. trict manager in this territory.
| Mr. Holland returned Sunday
! from a three-day meeting at the
Palmer House in Chicago, 111.,
; where he and 1,400 other top
| salesmen from all over the world,
! gathered to learn what’s new in
the encyclopedia field and to get
a preview look of the 1962 edi
tions.
Japan, France, Spain, Italy, Eng
land were some of the countries
represented at the meeting, Mr.
Holland reported and all express
ed approval of the many new fea
tures World Book has added this
year.
Mr. Holland said “it is sufficient
to say that the new innovations
will make learning a pleasant ex
perience eliminating the drud
gery of drill work.”
Mr. Holland will asume charge
of his new district, comprising
Houston, Pulaski, Macon and Sum
ter countries on October 1.
SECOND SECTION ’
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14 Pages This Week
ESTABLISHED 1870
Deacons Ordained
At First Baptist
Three new deacons were ordain
ed at services at the First Baptist
Church Sunday night, with War
ner Wells, Fort Valley attorney,
delivering the ordination message.
The new deacons were Avon
Buice, Julian Cawthon and Jimmy
Connell. They replace Alton Har
dy, Powers Lawson and Cooper
Etheridge, whose terms as active
deacons expired this year.
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