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Dayy Crocket Caused Minor Beaver Is Still (Editors not.: This It th first of a strict of thrao srticlts on I Ortgon's fur btaring animsts and trapping Industry) By GORMAN HOGAN PORTLAND iff Those Davy Crockelt coonskin caps caused a I minor boom in the Oregon furi market not long ago. But the beaver, as in the early I days of the Oregon territory, is again the mainstay of the state's quarter million dollar a year fur industry, following years of propa gation and protection by the State! Game Commission. The trapping season ooened this month in most of the state, follow ing the earlier opening of the mink and muskrat seasons. This will be the fifth beaver trapping season since the end of a 19-year closure. Chester E. Kebbe, chief biologist in charge of fur resources and water fowl for the game commission, estimates that 10,000 to 16,000 of these mem bers of the rodent family will be trapped this year. Last year's take was 13,000. This doesn't compare with the 70,000 muskrats taken in Oregon annually but the muskrat value last year totaled about $50,000 compared with about $170,000 for oeaver. Along with 3,000 to. 4,000 mink taken annually, these make up virtually all of Oregon's fur crop. About 200 otter and a few marten are trapped annually. The season is closed on the fisher and ring-tailed cat but few of these are to be found in the state anyhow. The raccoon, of course, is plenti ful, but in Oregon its quality is interior and the demand small However, at the height of the Davy Crockett craze last year, the price of 'coon skins doubled from $1 to $2 a pelt. Fur buyers emptied their ware houses to help meet the demand of Crockett-conscious small, fry hut now the bonanza appears to he fading and the price has slipped back down to about $1, Kebbe says. Like other furbearers. the bea ver played a major role in the settling of the West. Between 18.14 and 1837 the Hudson's Bay Co. at Vancouver. Wash., received a total of 405,472 beaver pelts from their traoners. The heavy toll gradually depleted the beaver population Uranium Role To Widen For Private Industry WASHINGTON W The Atomic Energy Commission said here that it is giving private industry more time to prepare proposals for pro ducing uranium compounds a field now barred to private interests. The deadline on submitting pro posals was extended from next March 31 to next Oct. 1. And the dale for deliveries of compounds to begin should industry propos als meet AEC approval was put off to April 1, 1959, instead of July, 1358. Private industry at present is confined to mining and milling uranium ore but the AEC said it hopes to increase industry's role in the uranium field. Plans for producing three com pounds are sought. One, uranium trioxide, was added to the list Monday. I he others are uranium totra fluoride and uranium hexa-fiuonde. Coonskins Fur Boom, But Mainstay in Oregon, known as the Beaver state, until the first protective legislation was passed in 1893. Fi nally trapping them was banned entirely in 1898. After about 20 years, however, finlitical pressures succeeded in ifting the ban but it was renewed aitain in 1932. In the 19 years be tween then and 1951 when the season was opened again, trapping was done by state trappers. They trapped only in damatje complaint areas such as farms, orchards, tree farms and the like. Meantime, the State Game Com mission carried on a protection and propagation campaign, trap ping beaver live during the sum mer months and moving them to more favorable feed and habitat. Now trappers may take a limit of 100 beaver annually, but Kebbe says few of 1,600 who have trap ping licenses approximate this figure. In addition to a $6 state license, trappers must have a $1 metal tag attached to each beaver pelt shipped. 'Tags are bought in advance and refunds given for those not used. Next: What keeps the beaver busy? iv -'irjMt til ft 4 A POISON BOMBS SAN DIEGO, CAlif. Wi A. U.S. coast guard plane bombed Santa Barbara island. The bombs were forty 25-pound sacks of poisoned bar fey. Their target was 50.000 rabbits. Donald Robinson, department of interior, said: We had to do it. The rabbits were eating the is land's foliage faster than it can grow." ALARM WITHOUT WORD GRAND HAVEN, Mich. W A 2-year-old who hadn't learned to say "tire woke his latner in lime for him to rescue members of the family from their burning home. Douglas Rover kept screaming "hntty" until he woke his father. Walter. 2fi. An overheated furnace had set the house afire. I .as jo a TWO FOR THE MONEY Hitmortit Herb Shriner emcee thi faat-pactd blend of quipt and qitis, mm Sunday, 6 30 pm Dial 1490 CBS Rod.o . V' 'r. NtA TlMrit SHOCKED BY SHOOTING J. G. Apel, Mrs. John Warren and Mrs. Raymond LaPrade,, father, daughter and sis'er of Mrs. Mary Calhoun, sit in shock and despair at Dallas, Tex., after Mrs. Calhoun and her three children were slain by Buford Calhoun, her estranged husband and father of the children. Calhoun, an ex-convict, shot and cut the throats of Pamela Sue and Patricia Lou, three-month-old twins, and Bobby Lynn, a 17-month-old son. Bobby Lynn was sleeping beside his mother at the time. Calhoun also seriously wounded his son-in-law, John Warren, 19. He then fle'd and later attempted to shoot it out with a police officer and was killed. Hoover Suggests Aifia , To Ease President's Load NEW YORK li Former Presi- i dent Herbert Hoover suiuests that Congress ease the burden on tlic I President of the I'nited States bv authorizing him to appoint "an ad- j minislrative vice president." ' This official. Hoover said, could relieve the President of "a nionu-. mental amount of secondary duties." j The former President said he did , not believe the President's job was too much for the physical capabil-1 ities of one man but it should be possible to delegate many detailed duties which cannot now, by law. be turned over to presidential aides. Hoover discussed the problem on TV-radio program (NUC-"Meet the Press") focused on the Bur dens of the presidency in view of President Eisenhower's heart attack. WITHIN LEGAL RIGHT WASHINGTON I The U. S. Circuit Court of Appeals says the Post Office Department is within its legal rights in sending some or dinary first class mail by .air. Some Western railroads had chal lenged the department s expert mental program. The airlines are paid a much lower rate for such mail than for air mail. jFri., Dec. 16, 1955 Th Nows-Revlew, Ronburp, Ore. S ! Warren's Other DaughterTo Marry Professor For a Tibetan, sticking out his tongue is a mark of respect. I SANTA MONICA, Calif. I i Chief Justice Warren's second daughter Dorothy and Dr. Carmine Clcmente, t'CLA professor, will be W'Oli lnti,l;iu .1 lha U'.,f.r. . Chapel in Palos Verde. Justice Warren. Mrs. Warren and other members of the family plan to attend the nuptials. Miss Warren, 24, and Dr. Cle- mente, 27, a professor In the de partment of anatomy at UCLA's medical center, met six months ago in the UCLA library, where Miss Warren is employed. Miss Warren's younger sister Nina (Honeybear) eloped to Las Vegas last Nov. 1 and married Dr. Stuart linen, Beverly Hills obstre-tician. Japan produced 981.100 still cam eras in 1954, an increase of 40 5 per cent over the previous year. ED CILDEN'S CHRISTMAS TREES DOUGLAS AND GRAND FIR one block south of the bus depot ALT'S OR-2-2652 IF YOU'RE HAVING TROUBLE . . . WE'LL BE THERE ON THE DOUBLE. CRANES FOR AUTO AND TRUCKS. Ambulances . . . Oxygen equipped. We'll Go ANYWHERE ANYTIME! WALT'S TOWING AND AMBULANCE SERVICE 487 N.E. 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