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
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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.
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