EIGHT MEDFORD (OREGON) MAIL TRIBUNE
Friday. Mty 5, 19SS
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Civilization Making
Wildlife Conservation
Difficult, Important
(Editor's note: This U an
other in a series of articles
published during National
Conservation Weak. May 1 to
7. covering various phases of
conservation of Oregon's nat
ural resources.)
By KENNETH G. DENMAN
State Game Commissioner
Statistics show that about one
out of every four residents of
Oregon fish or hunt. This fact,
when viewed in the light of our
rapidly growing population and
the gradual diminishing of wild
life habitat, makes the problem
of wildlife conservation an ever
more difficult one.
In other words, the march of
civilization is reducing natures
capacity to produce fish and
game. We can see this all around
us in the building of dams, drain
ing of marshes, reduction of
stream flows by irrigation and
cutting of timber, intensive
tanning leaving little escape
cover, pollution by sewage and
other wastes in many of our
waters, destruction of spawning
beds by removal and disturbing
of gravel in the stream beds and
many other things which follow
increases in population and de
velopment of our country.
Greater Demands
At the same time, due to tre
mendous population increases,
greater and greater demands are
. being made on fish and game. In
1953 the total hunting and fish
ing license sales in Oregon
amounted to 721,874 licenses of
all kind3, about evenly divided
between hunting ' and fishing
licenses.
The responsibility for resolv
ing this almost impossible con
flict is vested in the Game Com
mission. Unfortunately, many
people expect miracles to be per
formed and think we can turn
out fish and game as we do
articles of trade. Man cannot
completely take the place of na
ture in this field, although, by
fixing seasons, setting bag lim
its, propogating fish and game
for release, mitigating civiliza
tion's damage to habitat, acquir
ing and setting aside game areas
and many other methods and
procedures, the Commission en
deavors to conserve our wild
life so that the present and fu
ture generations will have some
hunting and fishing.
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Restrictions Necessary
If this is to be accomplished,
the public must accept the vari
ous restrictions and regulations
designed to conserve our wild
life resources and cooperate
fully so that they may truly be
conserved. Fish and game re
sources belong to the state, but
all sportsmen should feel that
they have an individual interest,
and anyone who violates the
law or who take more fish and
game than they are entitled to,
are actually taking something
away from the rest of the sport
ing public.
We cannot "have our cake and
eat it too." The day of the meat
hunter in Oregon is past. Fish
ing and hunting in our state for
fun and recreation should be the
accepted end, if wildlife is to sur
vive in substantial quantities.
View as Recreation
It behooves us all to think of
hunting and fishing in the same
light that the golfer looks at
golf, the hiker thinks of hiking
or the horseman views horse
back riding, as sport and recrea
tion without great material re
turns. In this troubled world, it
is becoming more and more ne
cessary for people to get away
and relax. There is io better
way than to go out on a stream
or a lake, or to hie after the
deer, the pheasants or ducks.
The Game Commission is do
ing everything in its power and
in the limits of its means to
manage wisely our fish and
game resources. To be successful
the cooperation of the great ma
jority of sportsmen is necessary.
With a well planned and for
ward looking program, we have
every reason to believe that
there will be fishing and hunt
ing for all future generations.
This program is based on the
principle of doing what is best
for the greatest number, rather
than what is best for any parti
cular individual or for any par
ticular locality.
POLICE IN DARK
Brooklands, Manitoba (U.R)
Police today were puzzled by a
criminal who broke a traffic reg
ulation and mailed $12 to pay
his fine and avoid a summons.
Since no record of the infraction
is in police records they will
have to write the "criminal" and
ask what law he broke.
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Report Spurs Hunt
For Girl Missing
In California
Berkeley, Calif. (U.R)-Police
today followed a trail of clues,
which included three fingers
seen protruding from the trunk
of a car, in an intensified search
for a pretty, teen-aged girl miss
ing for a week.
Stephanie Bryan, 14, disap
apeared from her Berkeley
home last Friday. Eight witness
es said they saw a girl of her
description struggling with a
man driving a late model, light
colored car.
Sees 'Human Fingers'
Robert Small, 25, operator of
a service station in Keyes, south
east of Berkeley, reported to po
lice that a late model Pontiac
sedan pulled into the station
about 8 p.m. Wednesday. The
driver, a, dark-haired man with
heavy shoulders asked Small to
fill up the tank.
Small went to the rear of the
car and froze when he saw
"three human fingers" protrud
ing from the trunk.
He told the driver: "Youve got
something in ihe back. Some
one's hand is caught in the
trunk."
Small said the driver imme
diately raced away. Small said
he noticed only that the car had
no rear license plate.
He reported the incident to
the sheriff's office in Modesto.
The report touched off a wide
spread search of the San Joaquin
Valley but no trace of the auto
was found.
Description Tallies
Small's description of the car
tallied with that given by wit
nesses who saw a girl struggling
with a man outside of Berkeley
a short time after Stephanie dis
appeared. Another lead came Thursday
from Alvin McCoy, a motel own
er on Highway 99. He said a man
drove into his place Tuesday
night and said he wanted acco
modations for his "wife and
year-old daughter."
McCoy said the man lo
over the cabins and afte
pressing concern over the
tion in which the windows
suddenly changed his mini
left.
Stephanie is the daugh
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Berkeley. Bryan is a radio!
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Three of Five
Houses Smashed
By Detonation
Survival City, Nev. (U.R)
Harold Goodwin, atomic test
chief of the Civil Defense Ad
ministration, raid today that fall
ing debris and radiation would
have killed all residents of Sur
vival Town within one mile of
yesterday's powerful atomic ex
plosion. Goodwin made the statement
during a survival town tour by
newsmen and Civil Defense of
ficials today, after conferring
with official damage survey
teams which have been apprais
ing since yesterday the havoc
wrought by the detonation of a
nuclear device half again as
powerful is the A-bombs that
shattered Hiroshima and Nagas
aki. - He said all residents of Main
Street would have received a
lethal dose of radiation. Even
without that lingering death,
everyone within one mile of the
500-foot tower where the detona
tion took place probably would
have ben killed by flying or fall
debris, he said.
Ruptured Ear Drums '
Farther out from ground zero,
the primary injuries would have
been ruptured ear drums, he
said, caused by the terrific, force
of the explosion which creates
a virtual vacuum in the air.
Evidence was everywhere
that survival was possible out
side that one-mile ring for fam
ilies living in the right kind of
house with - the right kind of
shelters to duck into at the first
alert of an eriemy attack.
Main Street looked like it had
been struck by a super-tornado
instead of an man-made atomic
device.
Three of the five houses in the
downtown area of the replica
American
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the protection of American
cities that might be targets of an
enemy nuclear weapon.
Civil Defense xperts said it
was difficult to judge what cas
ualties might have been, had
Survival Town been a larger
community, and its residents real
Americans instead of depart
ment store dummies.
Louis Watson of Honolulu, a
veteran Civil Defense worker,
said it appeared to him that any
one in this model community
who lived within one mile of
the detonation would have died
if heTiad not been in a specially
prepared shelter.
Concrete Heme Survives
The heavy damage was con
fined to the one mile area from
the base of what had been a
steel tower, but was now just
a blackened spot in the desert.
A two-story brick dwelling and
a frame cottage slightly less than
one mile from the blast were
ruined completely, although con
crete slab and reinforced block
homes on the same street re
mained standing but damaged.
A block south, a two-story
frame home was so badly dam
aged that tenancy would have
been Impossible. .
Its asphalt roof was knocked
off in one piece and deposited
25 feet away in the back yard.
. On the two-mile line, five
other houses were still useable,
although their .windows, like
those of trailers standing beside
them, were smashed and glass
scattered over the desert.
Inside the main street homes,
the mannequin residents were
tossed about in a grotesque man
ner. The family that lived ' in
the brick house suffered badly.
None would have lived through
the bombing. . .
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Annuo Horned Toad Race
Set in California Saturday
Coalinga, Calif. (U.R) Some
150 horned toads, creatures that
usually occupy a sagebrush home
and are shunned by man, com
pete here this week end in the
19th annual Horned Toad Der
by. Most of the entries have spent
their lives basking in the sun
on the west side of the San Joa
quin Valley, but one has been
flown to California from Austra
lia for the derby.
Big Names Entered
Besides the lone entry from
the southern hemisphere, a num
ber of big names in local horned
toad circles, including Peachy,
Irish Beauty, Radio-active, Gene
ral Grant and Cantaloupe King,
have been entered in the race
Saturday.
One of the biggest problems
facing the trainers is teaching
the toads simple geometry.
The track consists of a 16
foot canvas spread out in the
main street of town. The partici
pants are placed in the center
under a basket and when the
cover is lifted the race is on.
In the concrete slab structure,
its white front blackened by the
searing heat of the explosion, a
woman dummy was still at the
kitchen table. But she'd lost her
wig.
What happened inside the
homes one mile away in the mo
ments of the blast was revealed
by official photographs taken by
sequence cameras which were lo
cated inside the dwellings.
One series of picture shows, in
striking silhouette, a two-year-old
child mannequin standing be
neath the protection of an indoor
lean-to shelter. The child was
completely protected from
chunks of debris larger than the
child itself. The air was filled
with these chunks and splinters,
ripped asunder and tossed with
sonic speed to become
paling missiles.
nvors would have to
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Instead of dashing straight for
the finish line at the outer edge,
the little reptiles usually stand
around a while. Eventually one
will casually wander across the
finish line and be declared the
winner.
Some Break Tradition.
However, a desert lizard occa
sionally -breaks tradition and
races for paydirt. This happened
last year when a local toad set
a new world record of 2.2 sec
onds. The old mark of 2.5 was
recorded in 1940 by Pete The
Rambler, who was entered by
the El Paso, Tex., Chamber of
Commerce.
Most horned toads look pret
ty much alike. They are cover
ed with a thick - thorny hide and
resemble a minature cousin of
the pre-historic dinosaur.
Seven Interim
Committees Created
Salem U.R) The Oregon
legislature created seven interim
committees to conduct studies
before the next session of the
legislature and submit proposed
bills.
One would study the preven
tion of sex crimes and another
would investigate the present
corrupt practices act in state
election laws. The latter was, fi
nally approved in the last day
of the 1955 session with stiff
Democratic opposition.
Other interim committees
would be set up to study off
shore salmon fisheries in coop
eration with British Columbia
and Alaska, problems of schools
at the county level, public assist
ance, highways, and electric util
ity tax problems.
SEEKS BOUNDARY MARKERS
Boston, Mass. (U.R) Albert
T. Lund, 45, is waiting for per
mission to see if Massachusetts
is still where he left it five years
ago. Lund, a surveyor in the
Massachusetts Public Works De
partment, .will set out to find
737 boundary markers, as soon
as the legislature approves funds
for the required "perambulation
of the boundary" every five
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EQUALING ITS 200 K0XSEP0WEK
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the reason you need to join the record-breaking
thousands who are swinging to Pontiac. The 200
horsepower delivered by the economical Strato
Streak V-8 with ' the four-barrel carburetor,
optional at extra cost, is the highest power ever
delivered by a car at Pontiac's price higher
than that of cars costing considerably more. For
thrift and thrills it's Pontiac all the wayl
Model for model, Pontiac has a longer wheelbase
than any car at its price 122' or 124", depending
on whether you select an 860, 870, or Star Chief
model. That's size where it .really counts and
it's important because a long wheelbase is the
reason for Pontiac's smooth, road-leveling ride
and the roomy comfort of Pontiac's large, luxu
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Pontiac on a level with far costlier cars for sheer
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ACCIDENT J
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In and Around
Prospect The Well Baby
Clinic for the Prospect area
which was scheduled for the
month of i May has been post
poned indefinitely because of
conflict with the Salk polio vac
cine inoculation program.
The Lettermens Club of Pros
pect high school is sponsoring
a smoker Mav 12 at 7 n.m. There
will be approximately 25 bouts,
both boxing and wrestling. The
sporting event is being directed
by Larrv Sanderson, one of
Prospect high school's leading
atnietes. Participants will be
drawn from all grades of Pros
pect Elementary school, as well
as from the high school.
The three bie events of the
evening are expected to be the
two tag team wrestling matches
and the "free-for-all."
Referees will be Bill Wilson.
retired professional boxer and
present commercial teacher at
Prospect, boxing, and Wesley
Stauffer, health and physical
education instructor, wrestling.
The SDorts-lovina- nublic is
cordially invited to attend. Ad
mission will be by donation to
to the Lettermens Club.
TIME TO CHANGE
Hollywood (U.R) Screen
writer Frank Stanley Gilman
Borden Chase Fowler today
changed his name to Borden
Chase. He received permission
for the change Thursday after
testifying "I was named after
a flock of rich relatives but
never inherited a thing."
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Prospect
The iunior class of Prosnect
high school will honor the grad
uating seniors on Friday night.
May 6, when the annual Junior
Senior prom will be held in the
high school gymnasium. This
will be the first prom held in
the new gym. Music for the an
nual affair will be furnished by
"Vic's Orchestra" under leader
ship of Robert H. Padgett. Danc
ing will start at nine o'clock and
continue until one. Refreshments
will be served.
There will be a nominal charge
per couple or for stags.
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