2—The Mill City Enterprise, Thursday, Feb. 4, 1971
Paul
Freeman left Friday
targets with .22 rifles. If you1 snow areas such as the Cas-
learn to hit the bouncing bun cade, Blue and Wallowa moun
Community
nies running at flat-out speed, tains.
TEXAS OIL
you won’t have much difficul The brush rabbit of western
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ty downing a running deer or Oregon poses quite a problem.
COMPANY
elk.
As its name implies, this cot
By Milt Guymon
needs good man over 40
Although not so in Oregon,. You will find the rabbits ex tontail is a brushland dweller-,
for short trips surround
across the United States as a i cellent eating also. In our preferring the shrubby, bram-
Farther and Fj»rne«t Freeman whole the rabbit provides more family we prefer to cut in bly draws and slopes from low | Thursday, February 4—
ing Mill City. Contact
from Eugene spent the week wild game meat for the Sports pieces, season, roll in flour or elevations to the higher slopes Jaycees meet at Jaycee hall
customers. We train. Air
Ml*. Tom Phillips (Frances end at the home of their par men's table than any other batter, and either deep fry or of the Coast Range. He is ex at 8 p. m.
Mail R. B. Dickerson
brown and slowly simmer, tremely difficult to flush from
Ward)
of Superior, Mont., was ents, Mr. and Mrs. Richard game animal hunted,
Mill City Garden club at the
Pres., Southwestern Pe
Freeman. They returned to
Now that statement may much in the manner of fried such dense cover. Most hunt home of Mrs. William Me
I
recuperating
from
recent
sur-
troleum Corp., Ft
Eugene
early
Sunday
morning
chicken.
If
your
specialty
is
ers
who
work
the
west
side
seem a bit farfetched when
1 gery at the home of her par-
j Clintock at 8 p. m.
Worth, Tex.
1 ents, the Al Wards, so was They came home to attend one considers that Oregon more on the gourmet style, we regularly do so with good rab
F. 0. E. No. 3384 Aerie meet
here at the time of her father’s Installation ceremonies for the hunters annually take around suggest basting with wine, bit dogs such as the Bassets.
sudden passing Sunday morn Rainbow Girls when their cous 10 million pounds of deer meat lemon butter sauce, or the Beagles, or other flushing and ing. Auxiliary officers meeting
in. Nancy Lalack was installed and somewhere around 3 mil many other fine seasonings trailing dogs. When snow cov at 8 p. m.
ing.
as Worthy Advisor.
lion pounds of elk meat, if we available. And don’t throw ers the ground, though, hunt
use the conservative figure of away the drippings. Rabbit ers without dogs can enjoy Monday, February 8—
Mr. and Mi*. William Me-
Look for
Paul Cree returned to his 100 pounds dressed weight for gravy over creamy mashed po some fine sport.
Clintock and Patty spent the
Mill City Lions Club din
weekend in Portland with his home Friday afternoon after deer and 300 pounds for elk. tatoes is something to talk tracks and trails, then kick ner meeting at the Sportsmen’s
about.
around
in
the
dense
weed
and
hen
if
you
add
the
poundage
spending
3
weeks
at
the
Salem
brother and sister-in-law, Mr.
Country Kitchen at 6:30 p. m.
from other states where hunt If you’ve never hunted rab bramble patches in which the
and Mrs. Jack McClintock and Memorial Hospital.
Marilyn Chapter No. 145
ers annually take from a few bits you are missing out on trails lead.
family. Mark McClintock spent
I OES meets at hall at 8 p. m.
Pharmacist
the weekend with Billy Gabriel
Here’s a point about rabbit All OES invited. Masons will
Mrs. Tom Phillips from So- thousand big game animals up some fine winter sport, espe
at Gates. Sue McClintock spent gjerior, Montana underwent ma to 70 or 80 thousand, the pound cially if snow covers the hunting you might remember. be honored.
Is
the weekend with her grand jor surgery at a Salem Hos age reaches almost an unbe ground. There is nothing more Both the jack and cottontail
A Skilled
parents, Mr. and Mrs. Ix>well pital last Wednesday. She re lievable figure. It would take exhilarating than to track have a habit of zigzagging at Tuesday, February 9—
Cree.
Steering Committee meeting
turned to the home of her a mighty big pile of 2-pound down the bunnies on a cold, full speed for short distances
Professional
mother, Mrs. Nellie Ward Sun rabbits to equal that weight, crisp winter day. Rabbits then stop abruptly to get a Eagle Lodge hall 8 p. m.
much less tip the scales in the travel much more extensively better look at the danger Jayceettes meet at the home
In town to look after proper- day.
in search of food during win source or if they feel the dan of Diane Moore, 8 p. m.
rabbit’s favor.
I ty and make a few short calls
than they do in summer ger is past. A shrill whistle
Our training and exper Sunday was Mrs. Don Goode Mrs. Allen Tuers underwent Nonetheless, the statement ter
of Eugene, who was accompan surgery in a Salem Hospital is true and it is in the winter and will leave their telltale often causes them to come to Wednesday, February 10—
Order of Rainbow for Girls
ience add up to the skill ied by Mrs. Henry Miller of last week and has returned to time that the bulk of the tracks and trails in the snow- a quick stop.
many, many millions of rab all through their living terri Most firearms used for rab at Hall at 7:30 p. m.
you and your doctor de Sublimity. Mrs. Goode has de her home.
bits are taken by the nation’s tory. Find the tracks and at bit hunting are the .22 rifles City Council meets at City
cided to rent the place of her
pend upon for fast, ac father, the late Edmund Bert Mrs. Terry Coryell from outdoorsmen. Winter is the the end of that trail will be a and shotguns in the smaller Hall at 8 p. m.
preferred harvest time simply rabbit
gauges such as the 410 and 20
curate prescription fill ram, to her late husband’s Beaverton spent Tuesday at because
One important point to re gauges. Archers also enjoy ■»ponnored as a public service
in most areas snow
niece and family, Mr. and Mrs. the home of her grandparents,
mantles the landscape, which member about rabbits — the great sport with their long-
Dale Edwards (Vance Goode) Mr. and Mrs. Cecil Lake.
ing. Try us next time.
makes it much easier to find creatures are cyclic and you bows and arrows tipped for
I and small son recently of
might find an abundance one
HOME DELIVERY
, Bremerton, Wn. His parents
Mrs. Charles Golden honor and track down this fine little winter and a scarcity the next. small game.
J are Mr. and Mrs. Marvin Ed- ed her daughter, Debbie, Sat game animal. Rabbits are also
DRUGS AT PRICES I wards of Gates. Mrs. Goode urday afternoon on her 9th usually in their best health Even during the low cycle pe
YOU CAN PAY
has been helping in the care birthday anniversary by hav during the colder months and riod, though, hunters can gen
Insurance Agency, Inc.
AND TRUST
I of her 3-months-old grand ing a party for her at a Stayton generally free of disease and erally find enough rabbits to
129 Wall Street
make
the
hunt
challenging
and
parasites.
daughter, DiDi Ann Howard, Ice Cream Parlor. Attending
See Us For
Oregon hunters have no less | interesting.
■ whose mother, Mrs. Don How were Debbie and her teacher,
Jacks
prefer
the
more
open
All
General
Lines of Insurance
than
seven
different
rabbits
to
.
-
ard (Marylee Goode), has been Mrs. Doris Williams, Lori
; hospitalized with asthma and Holman and Tonya Porter and shoot for if they have a mind I country, so look for them out
Phone
897-2345
I bronchitis, but is at home re- her mother, Mrs. Charles Gold to do so. All it takes is a hunt- [ on sage-covered flats and roll
ing
license
and
the
urge
to
go.
ing
hills.
Brushy
creek
bot-
I cuperating at present.
en.
The list includes three mem-' toms, shrubbv drv washes, ra-
beres
of the hare family—the vines, and jumbled rimrock
Mrs. Troy Wainbaugh (Mil
The annual meeting of the
black-tailed jack. areas are favored haunts of
“
“
j i white-tailed
Willamette Council of Camp dred Rogers) of Hubbard, vis-1 snowshoe,
jack — and the Oregon cottontail. Look
Fire Girls was held January I ¡S ÄJJÄ «Ï, »Ä
for them also around agricul
19 at a Salem restaurant. Re day of last week here at the cottontail, Oregon brush rab tural lands, especially if ad
NEED A
presenting the Canyon area I home of her parents, Mr. and bit, eastern cottontail, and the jacent escape areas are shrub
were Mr. and Mrs. Tom Dryn- Mrs. Clyde Rogers. Saturday pygmy. The latter is a little covered and cut with washes.
521 1st
Stayton an and Mr. and Mrs. Larry visitors at the Rogers home fellow,
TOW?
The big snowshoe is seldom
seldom exceeding one
Urban of the Canyon Leaders were Mr. and Mrs. Frank
Phone 769-5345
found
in
large
concentrations
pound’ with its range
confined
1___ I mninhr
Association. Also attending Sugurdson and Mrs. Fdnn
iLtllld
of
Emergency 769-6392
although population abundance
mainly trv
to the cm
southeastern
was Mrs. Don Carlson who re Brash, a cousin of Mrs. Rog corner
Call 897-2442 For Fast Service
will be higher in preferred
of
the
state.
presented the Mill City Wom ers, all of Salem.
areas. Find these preferred
My
own
preference
in
rab
an’s club, who sponsor the
AllSta+e
bit hunting is for the black timbered mountain slopes and
Camp Fire and Bluebird girls
A son was bom to Mr. and
flats and you can generally
tailed
jack
and
Oregon
cotton
Motor
Club
in the area.
I Mrs. Joe Smith (Paula Jane tail, both found throughout find the big hares in singles.
’Grant) at the Salem General eastern Oregon. We also enjoy i twos, and threes scattered all
Road Service
hospital Saturday, January 30. hunting the big snowshoe through the area. The snow
Mrs. Smith has three older hare, found mainly in the tim- shoe changes color with the
sons.
hered mountainous sections of season depending on the per-
SO YOU THINK
the state. Although its home, sistence of snow. As a result,
YOU'RE PAYING
Mr. and Mrs. Richard Boe- range is generally eastern Ore- Y°u might find him a mottled
We Give S & H Green Stamps
digheimer
of
Stayton
are
an
THROUGH THE
Phone
897-2442
Mül City
gon,
the
white-tailed
jack
(also
brown
and
white
in
the
Coast
nouncing the birth of a daugh
blacktail) has spread its Range to al! white in heavy
NOSE FOR OTHER
ter born January 21 at Santiam the
DRIVERS'
Memorial hospital. The little range into the Rogue, Ump-1
girl weighed 6 pounds and has qua, and lower Willamette
ACCIDENTS.^
basin. One of the most diffi
been named Margaret Ann. cult
Safe drivers save
rabbits to hunt, a real
The
Boedigheimers
have
three
money at Safeco.
challenge, is the brush rabbit
other
children.
Raymond,
Todd
Careful people have
fewer accidents, so
and Jody. Mrs. Boedigheimer i found from low to high eleva
it costs us less, and
will
be remembered as the tions in western Oregon. The
we pass the savings
introduced eastern cottontail,
|
former
Elnora Albright form largest
on to you. And
of the cottontails, is
erly
of
Mill
City.
when it comes to
found mainly along the Colum
claims settlement,
we try to contact
Mr. and Mrs. Joe Smith are bia flood plains from about
claimants within
announcing
the birth of a son Troutdale to Deer Island and
24 hours, and settle
born on January 30 at Salem | south to about Salem.
claims within S
Hunters who think wing
working days.
General
hospital.
The
baby I 1 b ,
»7 i " “P' i “ a «
weighed
0
mrnt,
I
ouneis
«’■«*»»1
Safeco. Insurance on
everything you value.
».,.1 ? yet hasn-, been named,
• „•
wits with the bouncing
The baby has three brothers, | I match
,
’
'**.
Tony, Dale and Jerry. Matern-|,7nn e®' The sudden acceler-
al grandparents are Mr. and • atlon
“ on at
a flush: leaping, erratic,
zigzag escape flight; and in
Mrs. Cloyd Cox of Mill City.
stantaneous changes in direc
Mr. and Mrs. Ralph You- tion make the rabbit one of the
mans were visited last week by most difficult targets to hit.
their son-in-law, Jim Lyon, If you would like to improve
Rosemead. Calif., who was in your shooting ability on run
ning big game, practice your
the area on business.
shooting skill on these elusive
afternoon for Portland where
he attended the Northwest Dis
trict Christian Youth Fellow
ship at the Mallory Avenue
Christian church. He returned
to his home Saturday night.
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Bunnies
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Mr. and Mrs. Paul Nollette
and son of Klamath Falls, and
Mr. and Mrs. I^e Verret and
sons of Newberg were Satur
day overnight guests of the
Clyde Morgans. They were here
to attend the Morgans daugh
ter’s wedding reception.
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The .Al Glover home was the
scene of an elegant buffet din
ner and bridge party Saturday
evening honoring Mr and Mrs.
Wallace Hovey on their 17th
wedding anniversary, and Mrs
Dick Parker on her birthday
anniversary. Guests attending
were Mr and Mrs. Rex Oh
mart. Mr and Mrs Fred Gru
ver. Mr and Mrs James
Wright. Mr and Mrs Wallace
Hovuy and Mr. and Mrs Dick
Parker of Albany
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birth of twins, born Friday.
January 1. are Mr. and Mrs.
Richard Alan King of Gresh
am. The twins, a boy and girl,
are the couples first. Great-
grandmother is Mrs. Chris
Barker of Mill City.
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by ttecTMtonrf
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Mr. and Mrs. Mike Glover
of Eugene visited the weekend
with their parents, the Al
Glovers and the Ralph Bud
l<»ngs.
7:30 p.m.
8:00 p.m.
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