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Otters Menace Okefenokee Fishing
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enchantment but some of the magic has vanished. Ducks,
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Swamp traffic jams. Tourists are plentiful and charmed by Okefe
nokee’s majestic beauty. A few ducks may be seen but they are
far back on the Swamp’s prairies.
Swamp people and citizens ot Homorville and Fargo have no kind
words for otters. It is this game fish murderer that is largely the
cause of the decline of Swamp fishing, the natives say. As many as
nine otters were seen in one place and 26 were seen on a single trip.
The otters swim rapidly around the cypress trees flushing bass from
their hiding places. It eats just enough of a bass to kill it and leaves
it in a high place. Vultures are ge f ting fat and bass and perch scales
are piling up. Unfortunately the otter does not care for the rough and
undesirable fish.
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Best Fisherman of All ^
If somebody could slip a collar on an otter, he would have the most
efficient fish catcher in existence.
A rule forbids the use of minnows in Swamp waters. The pur¬
pose is to keep undesirable fish out. Fisheries biologists know more
about this than anybody, but a check-up reveals the Swamp waters
are inhabited with chub suckers, gar, yellow bullheads, and a stag¬
gering number of bowfin, all highly undesirable. The bowfin is
also known as cottonfish, mudfish, dog fish or in polite language,
the Spanish trout. goldfish of invaluable
Perhaps the use of minnows only would be
assistance in helping to eliminate some of the mudfish. The Swamp is
in a position to spare a couple oi million mudfish. This mudfish is
playing-you-know-what with the game fish population. Since fisheries
experts say the goldfish can not reproduce in any water where other
fish exist, why not use them?
' There is an abundance of wildcats and some natives say a few
panthers have drifted up from Florida. The alligator population is
decreasing. Perhaps this has nothing to do with it, but Jewett Hall
caught a six pound bass with a seven inch alligator in it. Young
gators find Swamp life rather precarious unless they stick close
to mamma.
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Black Bear Problem
The boss of the Swamp is the black bear. The bear family has
increased to a point where it is now a problem and a headache. An
employee of a cattleman near Fargo gets $50 for every dead bear
he brings in. Another cattleman was put out of business by cow-killing
bears. Five cows were found slaughtered by hears in one small area.
Deer are holding their own and doing fairly well. Hunting just
outside the Kefuge is good. Quail are scarce and some will give you
an argument the' they are completely gone. Predators have taken
care of the rabbits. There may be a few left. A good many squirrels
have been seen. One thing sure, only alert and swift squirrels are
still there.
If you want to count turtles, take along an adding machine. Hawks
and owls are as plentiful as hot dogs at a carnival. Families of eagles
have been reared in a nest near the boat landing at Billy’s Lake for the
past eight years or more. The nest is occupied along about March and
the family departs in September or October. but nearly
There are snakes in and around the Swamp Refuge not
as many as you would expect. Bass and jackfish consider young snakes
wriggling in the water a choice tid-bit and make short work of them.
Owls, hawks, and other predators assist in keeping the snake population
very low. Some big diamondbaek rattlers have been killed in the Swamp
neighborhood in case you just must have something to worry about.
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Swamp Is World to Itself
Granted there is a preponderance Okefenokee of mudfish, a scarcity of ducks and
a decline in fishing, the old Swamp still holds the spotlight
as one of the show places in America. It is a wildlife fortress, vivid
and vital, that continues to thrive on the survival of the fittest theme.
It will forever remain unsurpassed in beauty. When you are back in
the Swamp, you can’t help hut feel that this is a world all to itself.
The crys and screams of wild things pierce the night, and never fail
to send a chill racing up and down the spine.
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If money talks, I am desperately in need of a hearing aid.
1949 Auto Production
The 53 automobile manufactur¬
ers in the United States set a new
production record in 1949 by turn¬
ing out 6,250,000 cars, trucks, and
busses. This tops tire previous rec¬
ord, set in 1929, by almost a mil¬
lion vehicles.
Fighters Against Heart Disease
by LOUIS N. KATZ, M.D.
President, American Heart Association
Investigators In the field of
research are faced with the greatest
medical challenge of our time.
urgent task is tire development
new. improved methods for the
vention, care and treatment
diseases which lead all others
this country as a cause of
and disability. The health, the very
lives of millions of Americans
pend on liow successfully our
search fighters agalhst heart
ease reach their vitally
objectives.
In 1950, 745,000 Americans
of diseases of
the heart and
blood vessels. It
is estimated that
at least 10,000,
000 men, women
and children are
crippled In vary¬
ing degrees by
some form of
these diseases.
About 90
cent of all disease is the
sult of either high blood
rheumatic fever or hardening of
coronary arteries. And science
not yet found the basic cause
anv one of these three.
So the first and greatest
lenge confronting heart research
the challenge of the unknown.
even though our research
gators have not yet been able
solve this vast problem of the
known causes of the three
types of heart disease, they
| made significant progress on
fronts.
Operations on the heart are
tainly among the wonders of
ern surgery. They have
new life to the most pathetic of
heart disease sufferers,
born with defective hearts
those crippled by heart valve
formities caused, by rheumatic
Progress In the development
drugs that are effective in the
ment of certain forms of
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Billy’s Lake are missing. There were days
when families came in pick-up trucks, with
wash tubs and fishermen in everything from
expensive cars to broken down jalopies,
beat a path down the sandy road to Swamp
waters. Once, more than 3,000 anglers fished
the Refuge waters in a single day. Cars were
lined up back of Lem Griffis’ camp for more
than a mile. Those days are now memories.
There was a time when Okefenokee fishing
was nothing short of sensational. Today, it
seems, the flower of Swamp fishing has gone to
seed. There trickle but no
Dr. Kati
disease has been striking. For ex¬
ample, the antibiotics such as peni¬
cillin have given physicians power¬
ful weapons against “strep” infec¬
tions which precede attacks of
rheumatic fever. The antibiotics
have made it possible to prevent
the.onset of this disease which is a
leading disabler of children. Again,
drugs which slow blood clotting,
when used under proper controls,
have opened the w-ay to reduction
in deaths following heart attacks.
These and many other advances
have changed the concept of two
decades ago that nothing could be
done about -heart disease. Today we
know that heart patients can be
rehabilitated. Because of these ad¬
vances we are confident that there
will be greater, far greater hope for
hearts tomorrow.
Yes, hope for millions of hearts
lies primarily In our research
laboratories, in the hands of the
scientists who man those labora¬
tories. I can assure you that the
research men fighting heart disease
are of high calibre. Their lives are
dominated by a determination to
conquer the unknown. Our scien¬
tists are the front-line fighters
against disease. They need your
support. They depend on you, on
the home front, to give them more
weapons, more ammunition and
more courage.
You can give them your support,
so urgently needed, by contributing
to the 1952 Heart Fund. A con¬
siderable part of your gift will be
used to increase knowledge of the
heart and blood vessels and the
diseases which attack them and to
disseminate our accumulated knowl¬
edge to every physician and pa¬
tient In the land. In contributing
to the Heart Fund you will be mak¬
ing an Investment in heart research.
And you can expect that your in¬
vestment will bring you returns in
(lie form of Increased protection for
your heart and for the hearts of
your family and friends.
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New Theory of Earth’s
Origin Proposed at U. C.
A new theory to account for the
; creation of the earth has been of
j fered by Dr. Wendell Latimer, pro¬
fessor of chemistry at the Univer¬
sity of California, in a report in
the technical journal, Science.
The theory is a composite of ideas
suggested by geologists and astron¬
omers, together with some theories
j on the chemistry of creation set
forth by Dr. Latimer, who is an
expert on thermodynamics, the sci¬
ence concerned with the mechanics
of heat.
Dr. Latimer’s suggestions begin
with the assumption that the earth
was formed by condensation of a
cold cosmic cloud, which is in
agreement with other modern ideas
on cosmology. The scientist then
proceeds to cite in detail the chem¬
ical reactions which reinforce this
theory.
These particles fell together at
varying speeds, the heavier, metai
particles concentrating at the cen¬
ter, the lighter materials on outer
layers. Heat from the radioactivity
of potassium and other elements
provided the energy for the chemi¬
cal reactions within the earth which
produced the atmosphere, water,
and mountains and continents o!
the earth.
It appears that about half of the
solid particle material in the uni¬
verse has condensed into planets
and stars, Dr. Latimer said. The
remainder is in the great cosmic
clouds which still exist in space,
clouds from which new planets and
stars are being created in the con¬
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