Banner Graphic, Greencastle, Putnam County, 6 November 1973 — Page 9

Tuesday, November 6, 1973

Banner-Graphic, Greencaetle, Indiana

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Wild Turkey Out Of Trouble And Onto Nation’s Tables

NEW YORK (AP) — Americans’ taste for our traditional holiday dish — turkey — has not changed substantially since the Pilgrims sat down with the Indians over 300 years ago and shared four wild turkeys. This cheerful event nearly marked the beginning of the end for wild turkeys. And yet today, more than 128,000 wild turkeys are “har-

vested” or shot annually with no threat to a species which now numbers over 1 million nationally. Alabama alone boasts about 250,000 and in Iowa, where the wild turkey became extinct in 1907, the population has now reached nearly 400. Man was largely responsible for the birds’ decline but without him the turkey might not have made its astounding

comeback, says Dr. Donald A. Spencer, consultant to the National Agricultural Chemicals Assn. The decline began when settlers, needing more space for towns, cities, and agriculture, began encroaching on the turkeys’ habitat. And, as with much wild game, the turkey also became a “cash crop” and was heavily hunted. Adding to

Lady Sportscaster Chances Slim

By JA YSHARBUTT AP Television Writer NEW YORK (AP) — You stand a better chance of drawing a royal flush in poker than seeing a lady sportscaster on

television. But as all clockwatchers know, the times are achanging. Minutely, though. Only a few women currently cover sports for television.

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East dealer. Both sides vulnerable. NORTH * K 6 2 V 9 8 5 * A K 10 * 9 7 4 2

WEST * 8 V J 6 2 ♦ 8 7 5 4 3 * 10 6 5 3

EAST * Q J 10 9 4 3 V A * Q J 9 * K Q J

SOUTH 4 A 7 5 V K Q 10 7 4 3 ♦ 6 2 4 A 8

The bidding: East South 14 2 V 3 4 4 V

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Opening lead • eight of spades. Declarer often has the choice between winning a trick in his own hand or dummy’s. There is no magic rule to govern such situations — the right play depends on the circumstances. Consider this deal where West led a spade and declarer could win the trick in either hand. His possible losers were a spade, a club and either one or two hearts. It was clear that the two potential trump losers could be cut down to one by leading trumps from dummy toward his

K-Q-10, because the bidding had marked East with the ace. So declarer won the spade lead in dummy with the king in order to get the trumps going right away. Unfortunately, when he led a heart, East took the ace and returned the queen of spades. South played the ace and West trumped it. This proved to be fatal, for declarer still had to lose a spade and a club to go down one. South was surely right in thinking the first trump lead had to come from dummy. But he was wrong in doing what he did. On the bidding, there was a tremendous danger that East had six spades and West consequently one. In order to protect against this, South should have won the spade lead in his hand and entered dummy with a diamond to lead a trump. True, East would have taken the ace and returned a spade, but this would have proved ineffective. West could ruff, but, in that case, dummy would follow low and the king would remain as a trick. South would lose a heart, a club, and the spade that West ruffed. If West did not ruff the spade at trick four, dummy’s king would win and South would again lose only a spade, a heart, and a club. Declarer’s first play made all the difference between winning and losing the hand.

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among them Barbara Borin at WNAC in Boston and Jeannie Morris, who sportscasts for WMAQ in Chicago. But now you can add Ruth Walsh to the list. She was hired last month by KOMO-TV in Seattle, Wash., and assigned the sports beat there. She also was assigned a sportscasting slot on the station’s hour-long morning news program. The 30-year-old native of Bennetsville, S.C. had broadcast news experience in other cities but says she didn’t have the sports beat in mind when she first applied at KOMO for a job. “1 came up to the station to audition for a regular news assignment, general assignment reporting,” she said. However, she added, she thinks station officials ‘probably had an idea before I came that they perhaps wanted to use a woman as a sports reporter or a sportscaster.” Did she have a specialized background in sports reporting? “Let’s put it this way,” she said. “1 probably had as much knowledge of sports as anyone who was raised in a very sports-oriented family, which 1 was.” But, she conceded, ‘there are a lot of technical things that 1 don’t understand. But I’m learning, and in a way it’s one of the ways we’re approaching the (morning) show. “We realize that we’re reaching more of a female audience at that time ... so we’re learning together,” she said, referring to the show’s audience. “A lot of our interviews are on what makes a sport happen, not just the fact that there’ll be a football game, but also what does ‘line of scrimmage’ mean, or‘what is a touchbackT “Just basic things, but things that a lot of people who would watch in the morning may not know." KOMO’s woman sportscaster says she expected some static from male sports reporters, traditionally a crusty breed that screams bloody murder whenever a woman enters the press box. “But I’ve gotten nothing but cooperation and help,” she said, adding “I’ve really been lucky. Everybody up here said, ‘We’re willing to give you a chance.’ “I think they appreciated the fact that I did have a basic knowledge of sports and wasn’t trying to pretend that I was something I wasn’t. If I don’t know something about a sport, I'll ask about it and I think thev appreciate that, too.”

Time First-Ever Editorial Calls On Nixon To Resign

NEW YORK (AP) — Time magazine says “Richard Nixon and the nation have passed a tragic point of no return” and has called on the President to resign. Printing its first editorial since it began publication 50

years ago, the weekly newsmagazine said Sunday that Nixrn “has irredeemably lost his moral authority, the confidence of most of the country and, therefore, his ability to govern effectively." Time’s sister publication.

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Diplomatic Maneuvering Shifts To Middle East

the demise were natural predators, disease, and in some areas, adverse weather conditions. By 1900, the wild turkey was on its way to becoming a memory. In order to reverse the decline, Spencer relates, protection programs were initiated, with “bag limits” established. When it became clear this would not stem the dwindling of flocks, most states banned turkey hunting altogether, and turkey restoration was begun in earnest. Eventually, scientists, as well as wildlife experts got into the effort, and exhaustive studies were made on remaining turkeys. First efforts to trap turkeys and release them in areas where the flocks were losing, proved difficult, as the demand for turkeys outstripped the number which could be trapped. Experiments were conducted, raising turkeys on commercial farms, but birds raised in this manner lose their inherent wildness and tend to follow the persons who release them. Today, trapping techniques have improved, Spencer notes. TVapping sites are baited about one month prior to an attempt to trap, with the hopes of attracting a large flock. When the birds group themselves in thedesired position, biologists in a camouflaged blind fire a net over the feeding birds with the help of cannons. In some cases, the birds are banded for later study. Every effort is made to release the birds in a new location the same day they are trapped to avoid prolonged confinement. Stocks Skid Sharply NEW YORK (AP) — Stock market prices skidded sharply lower again yesterday a mid what analysts described as concern over Watergate, the Mideast and oil shortages. The Dow Jones industrial average, which lost nearly 52 points in a five-day slide last week, was down 13.09 points more to 922.19 at II a.m. today. Declines outnumbered advances by almost 4-1 in moderate trading on the New York Stock Exchange.

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A typical release of 16 birds has been arrived at as being the minimum number for a successful release. Experience has shown that, left undisturbed, 16 turkeys can expand their numbers in three or four years to the point where the area may even be able to support some hunting. This depends upon all desirable factors being present — plenty of food, water, and cover. The absence of heavy rain — poults (baby turkeys) are extremely vulnerable and drown easily — is paramount to successful turkey raising. Another limiting factor Spencer reports is a disease called fowl pox or “black head,” which can completely devastate a wild turkey preserve. Use of pesticides has largely eliminated this problem. In some parts of the country, fire ants have been known to attack nests and devour the poults. As with fowl pox, pesticides have reduced the fire ant population and given the wild turkey a better chance of survival. But fire ants still threaten. Turkey restoration has proved costly, with each trapped bird representing a cost of about $266. Seventy-five per cent of this is financed by Federal Aid in Wildlife Restoration funds,with the remaining 25 per cent provided through the sale of hunting licenses.

Diplomatic maneuvering in the wake of the Arab-Israeli war shifted from Washington to the Middle East today as Secretary of State Henry A. Kissinger flew off for a round of talks in Arab capitals. His trip, with a first stop tonight in Rabat, Morocco, follows warnings from Israel, Egypt and Syria that new fighting could break out unless negotiations break the impasse over Arab demands for an Israeli pullback and Israeli demands for a prisoner exchange. Israeli Premier Golda Meir and Egyptian Foreign Minister Ismail Fahmy left Washington Sunday after meetings there with Kissinger and President Nixon aimed at resolving the stalemate and preventing any breakdown of the fragile Middle East cease-fire. Following up on those talks, Kissinger after Morocco is visiting Tunisian, Egyptian, Jordanian and Saudi Arabian leaders before heading on to Iran, Pakistan and China. An Egyptian official said today Arab oil nations will continue using their riches as a political weapon “until the United States adopts not a pro-Arab policy, but an even-handed one.” “It will increase as time goes by,” government spokesman Ahmed Anis told newsmen in Cairo. The Egyptian military spokesman, Gen. Izzedin Mukhtar, said 50 Soviet observers uave arrived in Egypt but have not yet joined the United Nations peacekeeping force patrolling the cease-fire lines along

the Suez Canal. He said Egypt had no objection to American observers as well but none had arrived so far. Israeli Foreign Minister Abba Eban met with Romanian Premier Ion Maurer in Bucharest, the only Soviet bloc capital that maintains diplomatic relations with the Israelis. His visit generated speculation that the Romanians were following up on their offer to act as intermediaries between the Arabs and Israel.

Life, had endorsed Nixon for President in 1960. 1968 and 1972. Life ceased publication last December. The Time editorial charged that, under Nixon, the White House has become ‘pervaded by an atmosphere of aggressive amorality — amorality almost raised to a creed.” Contending there was now a “hopeless miasma of deceit and suspicion” surrounding the administration, the magazine declared: “The nightmare of uncertainty must be ended. A fresh start must be made.” Time said that, even if Nixon were impeached, brought to trial in the Senate and acquitted, “the process would leave him and the country devastated." “The most important decision of Richard Nixon’s remarkable career is before him: whether he will give up the presidency rather than do further damage to his country,” the magazine said.

747 Conversion Costs Jump $66 Million A Year

Meir Says Differences Not All Resolved After Visit

TEL AVIV (AP) — Premier Golda Meir returned from Washington today and indicated her visit had not resolved all the differences of opinion between her government and the Nixon administration. Mrs. Meir said in an airport arrival statement that, in her long talks with President Nixon, Secretary of State Henry A. Kissinger and other officials, ithey “were trying to find what points we agree on and what points remain, I hope, under temporary disagreement.” She said she would report tonight to her cabinet and on Wednesday to the Knesset, Israel’s parliament. Mrs. Meir said Nixon “listened well, as he always does, and Reao Visit Ends la Tragedy SACRAMENTO Calif. (AP)“We were just going to Reno to gamble...I don’t know what happened,” said Jesse Jones after crawling out of the twisted wreckage of a bus accident that killed 13 persons. Jones of Richmond, Calif., was one of 31 survivors of a ‘gambler’s special” accident Saturday night five miles north of Sacramento. The bus was scheduled to arrive in Nevada in time for the midnight floor shows at the Reno casinos and to return Sunday night to Richmond. A Greyhound spokesman said the bus was chartered by a group called “Variety Swingers” of Richmond. The front of the bus disintegrated when it slammed into a freeway overpass abutment on Interstate 880. Bits of wreckage were scattered over several hundred feet of freeway, and the concrete pillar was embedded in the bus three rows of seats behind what had been the driver’s seat. “The bodies were hanging right out the wreckage. A pair of stocking feet dangled below the twisted metal. The woman wearing the stockings was dead,” said Don Minnick, a photographer. Some survivors crawled to safety through the wreckage. But a swarm of nearly 60 rescuers worked more than three hours under floodlights to free the others and to extract bodies. Hundred of such “gambler’s special” charters travel each week between the San Francisco Bay area and Nevada gambling casinos at Reno and I Tahnf*

I listened very closely to what he had to say. I left . . . knowing that the friendship between the United States and Israel remains as it was." She appeared to be reassuring her countrymen when she said: “I'm sure everything will look fine."

WASHINGTON (AP) — The cost of converting the nation’s outlying military command posts to the huge 747 jets has increased $66 million in a year, despite eliminations of a computer system, congressional auditors say. The so-called doomsday jets, which are maintained as an option for use during a nuclear war, currently use Boeing 707 jets. When conversion was first approved to the 747s by Congress last year the cost was estimated at $482 million, but the General Accounting Office says it now is estimated at $548 million. The GAO report, released by Rep. Les Aspin, D-Wis., noted that the on-board computer system has been eliminated from the plans because of Air Force “inability to define what was needed ” The report contends that the system for instant communication is essential to the command post. It said the Air Force plans to add the system eventually, at an additional cost of $73 million. GAO said the biggest cost increase was $25 million for a system to make the plane invulnerable to electromagnetic pulse from a nuclear blast.

which would black out radio communications. Other increases include increased costs of the planes and unanticipated modifications and for new facilities at Andrews Air Force Base for the bigger planes.

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