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?
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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
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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.
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