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4 D THUhSDAY. OCTOBER 2S, 1962 MEDFOHD MAIL TRIBUNE. MEDFOHD. OREGON High-Powered Rifle Required To Hunt Wild Russian Boar By FRED FIELDS United Press International Ktioxvillc, Term. - IM - A liiRh-country wilderness )ust tnuth of the Great Smoky Mountains National Park is known to veteran hunters as Jellries' hell. One of the most dangerous game animals in the nation is believed to be responsible for that name. Some years back, a hunter named Jeffries put his hounds on the trail of a wild Russian boar in the Cherokee National Forest of southeast Tennessee. The dogs never came back. Jeffries told his friends he was going into the mountains to find his dogs or "go to hell trying." He was never seen again. Thousands of hunters from over the nation are making their annual pilgrimage to the little town of Tcllico, Tenn., this fall - jumping-off spot for hunting the tusked "3 t:v : i FINDS HOME About all that is known of Tennessee's Rus sian boar is that he's found a permanent home Just south of the Great Smoky Mountains National park and he's one of tlie toiiMhest critters alive. The boar can weigh up to more than 40U pounds, all of it bone, muscle and pure meanness. (UP1) Slicker Manufacturer Converts to Ski Togs By WALTER LOGAN Gloucester, Mass. HOT Gloucester, which came into bcinij as a fishing village in Ilia.'), is the ;iite of sculptor Leonard Craskc's famous Fish erman's Memorial dedicated to "They that go down to the sea ill ships. The statue is of a brave and determined-looking fisherman gripping the wheel of his fish ing boat and staring across Gloucester harbor toward the sea where so many Glouces ter fishermen perished during the past three centuries. Significantly, ho is wearing the traditional yellow slicher and rain lint associated with New England fishermen. Which is huw the Cape Ann Manufacturing Co. originally got into business niunulac turing slickers ior fishermen. Demand Died Out The demand for slickers died out over the years except for a boom in Ihe late i!l'20s when John Held Jr. -type ml lrj;iaiis wore them to f.-ollctfc along with school pennants, pork pie hats, Stutz Bearcats and coon.skiii coals. Tlie Cape Ann company a'so bcuan making heavy wool md leather outerwear for fisher men. There was a period dur ing World W;ir 11 when it turned out pup tents and uth or Army equipment, and it hit full stride after the war with a line of boating cloth ing based on 11 1 ) II years ol sea laring tradition. The firm introduced a boat ing coal in the 1940s and cull ed II the "Mighty-Mac." It was so popular the company decided on that name a.; its trade mark and chose Craske's Fisherman's Memorial as the symbol. Even the statue is known now .is Mighty-Mac. Mighty-Mac sprang into in ternational fame a year or so ago when it introduced the signal flag boating jacket, a fashion that swept the coun try and one that could be seen for miles at sea. Head of the firm is Jack Bell, a picturesque business man who wears an old mari ner type beard and lives in a 1647 house he is constantly repairing. He has now applied the signal flag idea to ski wear and many ski slopes this winter will remind you of a regatta. Unique Product "We're making a ski prod uct unique In itself," no said. "I think people are looking for recognition on Ihe slopes and if everyone Is in powder blue they're hard to find. There is a growing denvnd lor identification." Bell has branched out from signal letters and has intro duced a new design based on the numerals the colors arc repeated in vertical stripes paralleling the ripper closure The new length is '!!) inches which covers the behind when you're riding a ski tow. For after ski wear tht-rc are thigh-length boat coals. One is double breasted Navy melton with a red wool lining and hood and anchors on the billion. Another is New Zea land anlelope suede lined in orlon pile. A corduroy coat is lined with orlon pile and has a string lo pinch in the back for a warmth feeling 'Sister Cities' Result From Shipwreck Legend Virginia Beach, Va. -Wni- A legend wan born on a tempest uous day in ItWl when a Nor wegian sailing ship was wrecked of the coast of tills Tidewater resort city. When the 1.114-ton bare IJictiilor went down, all but one of Ms passengers and crew perished Only I hp captain, wiio shiycd aboard the strick en vessel until il sank, was f ixed. His wile and inlant son dt m ncd. The only part of Ihe Uic t.itiir to survive the sea was a carved wooden figurehead of a beautiful woman. II floated lo shore after the wreck. Yni:iiiia Beach townsproplc mounted the figure on a con crete ba.vc overlooking the sea nnd Ihe Dictator legend be came a pari ol llus city's col infill seafaring history. As the years went by, the statue de teriorated and in Kl5;t the dis figured relic was taken down. The Dictator s-aga was largely foritotlcn in these parts. 'I hen. C'apt. O. P. Aakenes. a Norwegian naval ofdeer on embassy duty in Washington, wrote an article on the Dic tator for a shipping publica tion in Norway. It impressed Norwegian producer Erik Bye and he brought il to the atten tion of Mayor Emil Anderson of Moss, Norway, Ihe port from which Ihe Dictator ld sailed. Moss city officials and bus inessmen enlisted private do nations to replace the deter iorated statue in Virginia Beach. The citizenry of Vir ginia Beach was delighted, and a "sister city" relation ship developed between Moss and Virginia Bench. Noted Norwegian sculptor Ornulf Bast was- commissioned lo create the new "Norwe gian Lady" figure. His work was unveiled here in cere monies in September. Nor wegian Ambassador Paul Koht, Virginia Gov. Albert Harrison, sculptor Bast and other dignitaries from Nor way alleuded. Simultaneous ly, a duplicate statue was un veiled in Moss with a delega tion from Virginia Beach in attendance. The Iwo statues will serve to perpetuate the legend of Ihe ill -fated Dictator and serve as a symbol of interna tional friendship between Moss and Virginia Beach. boar. Game commission per sonnel demand that each hun ter carry a high-powered ri fle. The "Rooshun" bear, as he Is called by natives of the area, was brought to this re gion in 1912 from eastern Europe. Bob Burch of the Tennessee State game and Fish commission here calls him the "undisputed, free style, no-holds-barred, all round, big game champion of the eastern United States." The boar's resemblance to a domestic hog is slight. This animal stands as high as three feet. The biggest one killed In the Tcllico area weighed more than 400 pounds, all of it bone, muscie and pure meanness. His long snout is equipped with a set of razor-like tusks -the lower ones as much as six inches long and the up pers reaching lengths of one to three inches. In Front of Dogs Hunted with a pack of hounds and a high-powered ri fle, the "furriner," as some call him, can stay in front of the dogs for a solid eight hours on the run. "But what they usually do is run about an hour and then stop, throw off all the dogs, and then start running again" Burch said. "The dogs still able to run fall in behind.' The hunter must catch his game at one of those times when the boar stops running long enough to turn and face the hounds. As often as not, the hunter ends up racing for the nearest tree when the boar storms through the pack of hounds and goes after the hunter. The game commission knows of two hunters who survived being "run down" by a cornered boar. Old time hunters tell of several fatali ties, but there are no official records. Built Like Hyena The boar is built something like a hyena with broad, high forcshouldcrs and low hind quarters. A thick layer of gristle along the back of his neck is tough enough to de flect a badly aimed rifle bul let. The old males with Uie long tusks are hard to find, not because they aren't there but because they stay away from the herds and bed down near the tops of remote high mountains. They also are able to remain completely motionless for long periods of time and many hunters have walked past without spotting the game. Little else is known about the animal. No one knows the average life span or how of ten they breed. Treasure Hunts Have Changed, Expert Claims New York - (tPil - Styles change - even in treasure hunting. That's the opinion of a man who supplies treasure hunters with their basic needs; maps and charts. Caleb D. (Bud) Hammond president of the C. S. Ham mond Co., said his company receives very few requests for maps these days from persons wanting to organize big expe ditions in search of sunken treasure or such exotic quar ry. "A real honest-to-goodness treasure hunt has gone out of style," Hammond said. He said the 1962 treasure hunter is the low-budget Scuba diver who searches off-1 added: "A treasure hunter shore shipwrecks as much for doesn't talk much about what fun as for profit. Hammond I he finds because of his in said the divers come to his J come tax." company for standard navi-j Another type of modern gational sharts which show j map-buying treasure hunter is shallow water sunken ships as hazards to navigation. Made Charts the big corporation seeking the wealth in the land or in the pockets of the consum- "In the past, we made uppers, charts for big expeditions j Maps ordered by business hunting Spanish gallions." ; firms go beyond the geolog Hammond said. One he rc-ical maps bought by oil and called was a three-month mining companies. Hammond search for a gallion supposed-1 said. For instance, a company ly sunk off the East coast of j seeking to establish or relo Florida while carrying gold j cate a plant might request from Mexico to Spain. j a map of a particular area "To the best of my knowl- j showing the availability of edge, they never found any-i railroads, highways, water or thing," Hammond said, but i other elements, he said. WHAT PRICE FAILURE? New York - (U'li - It civts the average teenager !Mti,Jti4 for lailtue to complete high school, according to Com merce Clearing Housr. The loss amounts to 22 per rent of what the teenager could earn In his lifetime if he eon. finilPd hitfll School In DraHm. ItlOn. : s N. SHOP MONDAY AND FRIDAY 'TIL & P.M. 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