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IT'S COLD WORK when you go out on the water early
to snag mullet in Klamath Lake. Here Fred Deamuth bal
ances in a rowboat as he scrapes the bottom with a long
pole with hook attached in an attempt to snag a big one.
California Fish
Department Subject Of Long
Scrutiny By Outside Firm
SACRAMENTO (UPI) A San
Francisco consulting firm is put
ting the finishing touches on the
top-secret investigation of Cali
fornia's Fish and Game Depart
ment. A. Alan Post, legislative
analyst, told a reporter that he
won't even discuss the contents
of the report in advance except
for making a couple of state
ments. "It's interesting and it's long,','
he said.
William. Powell, resident part
ner for Booz. Allen and Hamilton
of the Bay City, was equally eva
sive. Asked who will make the report
public, Powell replied: "We
, wouldn't. It's the property of our
client, the committee."
Post will turn it over to the
joint legislative committee on the
budget, headed by State Sen. Ar
thur H. Breed Jr. (R-Oaklandi.
The vice chairman of the com
mittee and the assembly repre
sentative is Assemblyman Glenn
E. Coolidge (R-Felton).
Post said the committee has ar
ranged the meeting to receive the
lengthy report, and probably ques
tion those who prepared it. Powell
will represent the consulting firm
at the committee meeting in Sac
ramento. The five-man field committee
that formulated the . report has
been disbanded and its members
have returned to their former jobs.
The report was asked by the
1957 Legislature, which appropri
' ated $100,000 for its formulation.
Field work on it started in March
of this year under the leadership
ot truest bwiit, tormerly a game
warden and deputy director and
director of the Wisconsin Fish and
Game Commission.
"Perhaps a portent of things to
come actually was indicated back
in May when D. E. Warren, presi
dent of the Weed Gun Club.
charged the investigation actually
was being directed by the depart
ment involved instead of by Uie
Legislature.
"It's like letting a grand jury
turn its case over to the suspect,"
charged Warren. "The man who
is making the so-called investiga
tion in this part of the state is Bert
Lauckhart, who has been brought
here from Washington (state)
where he has been working as a
game manager.
"He has been traveling around
Northern California with Fred
Ross, a game manager for Cali
fornia's Department of Fish and
Game. They have been traveling
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And Game
in an official state car and on
state time.
"Both Lauckhart and Ross have
been trained in the same theories
of game management and have
read from the same books, said
Warren. "Ross and his depart
ment are under lire.
"If Lauckhart, under such cir
cumstances, gets the full story of
what is being done to our deer
herds, for example, it will really
be a wonder."
There have been others who
charged the . investigative group
actually would whitewash the de
partment.
But Swift, questioned by United
Press International about these
charges, flatly denied them.
"It's common to have the public
prejudge you in these matters," he
said. "But we're going to state the
facts as we see them without
any fear or favor."
Swift was asked about a state
ment by Charles Bull, president of
the Northern Counties Wildlife
Conservation Association, that
this was the first time he had ever
known ot the defendant being al
lowed to pick his own jury.
"I don't want to get in any news
paper debate about this matter
They'll just about think what they
want to, said bwiit.
Swift then pointed out that he
was working on a report for the
Legislature nobody else, and "if
these people want to prejudge
Ihev 11 lust have to. K euess. -
One thing is certain, almost. Re
gardless of what the final conclu
sions of the investigative group
are, someone will object prob
ably loudly to the findings. .
Officials of the department say
that they don't know what's in the
report they have no advance in
formation from their sources. But
they also deny that a whitewash
is in the making.
One spokesman pointed out that
all employes of the department
had been instructed to help the
investigators in any way possible.
This would include furnishing
transportation if that was asked
ECONOMY
DENVER (UPI) No one ever
stole the scratchy old pens they
used to have at the Denver post
office, but Postmaster Ted Hefner
slill thinks he's saving monej) by
using ballpoint pens, even though
42 of them disappear every month.
Hefner pointed out that servicing
the old pens required 17 quarts of
ink. 300 points and 1,000 band
blotters a month.
AND NEWS. KI.AMATI! FALLS. ORF.OON
LIVE TANK on the dock at
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iy are Taken out tor eating, mere are many wno preier xne sweei meor 01 1110 munoi
any other fish. A good many of these caught at Williamson are bought by Klamalh
Is residents and by' some as far away as Weed. v
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SNAGGING is another method- of bringing up mullet in the Upper Klamath Lake.
Here Fred Deamuth of Williamson River Store snags a 15-pounder and hoists it into
the boat. The fish was taken in about 10 feat of water off the Williamson. Schools hera
are so thick that snagging is an effective, if hard, method of getting a boatload.
CIRCULAR - SHAPED HOSPITAL
BftOOKI.INE. Mass. (UPII
The first circular-shaped hospital
in this section of the country will
open here soon. Built at a cost of
$1,500,000, it will be known as
Rrookline Hospital. Advantages of
a circular hospital include: Rooms
will be shaped like pie wedges,
providing maximum space around
the patient's bed', only two nurses'
stations will be required on each
floor; and no nurse will have to
walk more than 50 feet to reach
a patient's bedroom, compared
with 70 to 90 feet in the conven
tional hospital.
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Williamson River Store keeps mullet in good shape until
ti I f iL. 1 1 r xL lll.
Sheepmen Plan Meet
The National Wool Growers As
sociation will hold its 94th annual
convention at Portland on January
25-2'J. Headquarters will be the
Multnomah.
Approximately 600 to 800 of the
nation's leading sheepmen are ex
pected to attend.
Several nationally prominent
guest speakers will be featured at
convention sessions including John
A. Logan, president of the Nation
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al Association of Food Chains,
Washington, D.C.: E. R. Jackman,
farm crops specialist at Oregon
State College, and Alexander John
ston, wool specialist at the Univer
sity of Wyoming at Laramie.
Most meteors burn up as they
race towards Uie earth, and Uiey
descend merely as dust which'
cannot be seen.