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Thursday, September 18. 1952 BROOKINGS HARBOR PILOT. BROOKINGS, OREGON <KE RACOON Local News Racoon, pirate, pet. predrtor. prize or pest. So varied are the relationships betw een men and racoons that you may take your choice for a single designation. Teddy Roosevelt built his Bull Moose p arty about a wild animal. This being an election year we found S enator K efauver follov in , his exam ple and using the c >on skin cap as cam paign symbo’. The fate of the Senator's Raccoon C I9 5 2 National W ild life Federatloe bitions m atte rs little to the coon who seem s able to survive dogs, traps, civilizations, fire, hunters and alm ost anything. Even the rage of college boys for coon skin coats did not wipe the anim als out of their range over our whole country. When a country boy in his early spring w anderings finds what look like the prints m ade by little 2x4 inch hands in the mud along the creek he has a hunch that the coons have come out of hiberna tion. If he is a careful obser ver he looks for one track with four toes instead of five and if he finds one he knows he has found a track of a woodchuck ra th e r than a coon. m Racoons breed in Februarv just .ifter coming out of their hiber nation. In 63 days two to six young are horn of the union and both parents take part in the suc cess of the little familv which PAGE SEVEN improvements are being done this After a sum m er spent in east- i\.i Zirbles health seemed im- week. This much needed project ii'in M ontana the Glen Zirbles preved by the change in altitude will lessen .he danger to students are at their home on Easy street, and clim ate. and pixies.rians using the walk between the school and the bus iness center. O. H. Bengtson attorney, who has otliees in the Goetz building has lately returned from Philidel- phia. New York and W ashington, D. C. where he spent two weeks Mr. and Mrs. Bob Murphy of on business for Brookings clients. G rants Pass, visited over the “week end with the Paul L. Peterson The state highway between the family. Chet co Inn and the school Mr. and Mrs. George Titus lett grounds is being widened and grading for a sidewalk and traffic Sunday the l l t h for Grundy Cen ter, Iowa for a week with rela may remain as a group through tives. Thev will go the N orthern the first winter. B.v the first route and retu rn through the stopping at w inter a young coon may have Southern States. reached a weight of 12 pounds, parks and scenic spots along the fwo hundred acres of suitable wav. woodland should yield an annual rop of one racoon in spite of the ; ormal accidents of nature. A all meal mav be about one half ’ounds of fish but it may be an luivalent in crayfish, insects, sweet corn or vegatables. We hope this clown of our neighbor hood never vanishes off our home range. Il he does we will move o his just for the fun oi‘ it W ithout prejudice for or against Senator Kefauvcr's po'itical fu ture the National Wildlife Fed eration of W ashington. 1). C., this ? elects his political sym bol, • . • i i *oon, to its 11)52 H al1, of Fam e its rem arkable popular wildlife stam p > »vies, by E. L a i cnee Palmer. P A U L R O N N IG E R , M . D . PH VSIClslN .I M ) SURGEON Olfice Hours: io to 12; 1 to 5 Office Fkone 291F des. Phone 2231 ’• .W j M M » « the O r e g o n ia n brings the ca m p a ig n e rs Io yo ur m a ilb o x for G et th e D aily O re g o n ia n in yo ur m a ilb o x sam e d a y as published. Screened Sand, and Gravel ” r’“ i f ’ ■ S(h¥Uye Za.Tu and Grave! HCW Phone 2341 p o in t means to yo u ! Campa.’ ‘ 3 is a d a ily business! T h a t’s w hy yo u ^ Leonard Reol Estate TT-i r^rrip--.- — pm ! i— r T i j f WILL YOU VOTE? The ballot you mark this N ovem ber is perhaps more im p o rta n t to your life «Aid liv e lih o o d than ever before. 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