Banner Graphic, Greencastle, Putnam County, 30 November 1973 — Page 3
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Friday, November 30,1973
Banner-Graphic, Greencastle, Indiana
Page 3
COMMISSIONERS' CtAIMS
Th« Putnam County Board of Commissioners will meet in regular session Monday, December 3 at 9:00 legal time at the courthouse in Greencastle, Indiana to con-
sider the following claimsCOUNTY HIGHWAY PAYROtl
Earl Jeffries 301.43 Carl Alexander .....231.00 Go rnett Gorham 196.87 AnnaM. Crawley 175.35
By TOM SIEBERT Associated Press Writer MURDO, S.D. (AP) - Hunted nearly to oblivion 100 years ago by sportsmen, the shaggyheaded American buffalo is flourishing again on the western plains — this time under the watchful eyes of ranchers and park rangers. It is estimated there were 60 million buffalo in America when Columbus sailed in 1492, and that in 1850 at least 20 million still roamed the plains in great herds.
Paul Cooksey 250.00 Silas W. Bunery 200.07 Howard Gray 192.66 Walter Hubble 200.07 Clifford Jackson 201.31 Emerson Phillips 200.07 Woodrow Poynter 184.02 John Roach 214.40 Chester Spencer 214.40 James C. Boiler 201.00 Rober Boiler ......198.32 Thomas Brothers 209.16
side, their independence. “The animals like to fight,” said ranch foreman Art Busskohl, "and if one runs because he gets afraid of something, the others may follow in a stampede.” Problems with people trying to get too close to buffalo are about the only difficulties faced by rangers tending the herd of 750 that roam the 3,400 square miles of Yellowstone National Park, said Ranger Edmund Bucknall. The animals’ belligerence.
P. A. Hinners 239.86 Richord Moloyer 128.64 Harlan Nelson 205.38 COUNTY HIGHWAY VENDERS Gene Beck 362.20 GeneralTelephone.. 50.21 Perry Office Supply 40.00 Dorthy Heavin 18.50 M. R. Auto Parts 307.35 Russellville Implement 117.75 Indianapolis Spring Corp 42.04 Joint and Clutch Service 56.77
when coupled with tourists who crowd too close trying to get pictures or trying to pet the wild buffalo, has cost one man’s life and some injuries over the years, said Bucknall. “People get in a ring around them, and whoever is standing in the way it takes to get out gets hurt.” The buffalo at Yellowstone have only one predator to worry about — the grizzly bears — and even they will rarely take on a mature bison in a fight, said Bucknall.
Girton Implement ..85.82 Jim Harris Chev 63.00 Greencastle Auto... 96.48 Industrial Belt Supply 13.42 King Morrison Foster 103.51 Putnam Co. Farm Bureau 126.12 Cummins Mid State 29.20 Indiana Equipment Co 142.39 Morrisons Tires 442.08 Kendall Wrecker Service 85.00 Motorola Inc 1050.00 Jonhil Sign Service 55.00 Martin Marietta Stone 41.31 Ohio and Indiana Stone Service 5273.46 Russellville Stone Service 64.93 Harris Stone Service 192.16 Ladoga CulvertCo 343.90 Dolton Asphalt Co 6722.83 W. O. M. Sales Inc 235.00 Motorola Inc 111.60 Public Service Co. Inc 81.66 Dept, of Water Works 3.00 High Point Oil Co 1567.12 Central Rubber and Supply 7.72 3 D Auto Supply 1.80 Kor-X-AII 32.83 Kar Products 88.32 Greencastle T ractor Sales 30.45 Thirty Corp 38.75 Allied Truck Equip 74.33 H 4 K Farm Implement 11.10 Black LumberCo 7.50 Del Chemical Co 66.34 Motor Fuel Tax Div 50.80 FEDERAL REVENUE SHARING Dalton Asphalt 20,500.00 Girtons Implement 11,965.00 R. 4 S. WALNUT STREET SECTION C. Dalton Asphalt Corp 13,194.98 CUMMULATIVE BRIDGE Jones 4 laughlin Steel (Morton) 473.92 WELFARE PAYROLL Leroy J. Keach 820.00 Grace McKeehan 630.00 Virginia N. Bowers 630.00 Catryno J. Shipman 430.00 Helene Dunford 430.00 Randy Schreiber 350.00 MaryC. Summers 400.00
Buffalo Again Roam Western Plains
Helen A. Crum 360.00 Reta Sutton 350.00 Cynthia Riggs 240.00 Kay A. Thompson 173 00 COUNTY REV PAYROLL Christine Masten 360.95 Joyce Covin 408.80 Barbara Clark 310.20 Fern Shewmaker 408.80 Frances Harris 360.95 Alice Mahoney 360.95 Anita York 360.95 MargoreteO'Hair 408.80 Eula Clyde Ames 360.95 JeanFoxx 360.95 Leona Terry 600.70 Ruth Ann Hammond 408.80 James Baugh 583.33 JamesE. Adams 541.66 Gerald A. Hoffa 541.66 Jim Costin 4.00 John Phillips 2.13 Sue Benassi 10.45 JohnEllett Jr 416.66 Evelyn Spencer 360.95 Judy Mooney 540.75 Vernie Zeiner 515.00 Frank McKeehan 356.89 Edna McKeehon 72.00 Imogene Thomas 408.80 Lynn Mark 250.00 Harley Fender 400 00 Loyd M. Surber 360 00 Vera June Albright 541 66 Genel. DeWeese 100.00 George Gentry 297.00 Susie C. Gentry 297.00 Aeleena M. Heavin 178.20 Mary Elnora Heavinridge 178.20 Imogene Hazel Ferrand 178.20 Irma W Hurst 82.69 Jerald Colbert 218 33 Mel Eastham 100.00 COUNTY REV VENDERS Minnesco Mining 3-M Co 190.02 Greencastle Offset 120 00 Woodburn Printing 415.10 Woodburn Printing Co 300 00 3M Business Product 80.75
Woodburn Printing Co
27.50
Typewriter Rebuilder
15.21
Woodburn Printing Co
119.76
Woodburn Printing Co
7.00
Commercial Radio Service
30.00
Texaco
Cecil Perkin
15.00
Rexall Boyd
15.00
R. V. Murphy
William Wright
15.00
Zuckerbergs Uniform
88.60
High Point Oil
238.21
High Point Oil Co
229.60
Putnam County Independent Ins.
Agents
69.00
Alan Stanley
12.14
Woodburn Printing Co
8.75
Alan Stanley
6.20
Ormont Durg and Chemical
150.00
WarrenS. Tucker Theoline Bee
.;:. ,0 $:38
Greencastle Offset
17.75
Woodburn Printing Co
7.50
Typewriter Rebuilder
4.05
Evelyn Spencer
30.46
General Telephone
34 37
Judy Mooney
9.50
Vernie Zeiner
69.30
Albert Soloman
21.20
Steven Clark
75.00
J. D. Colbert
200.00
James Houck
35.57
Progressive Printing
47 55
Kor-X-AII
36 26
Public Service
218 21
GeneralTelephone
39303
Haltom Electric
28 50
Indiana Gas Comp
5 48
Block lumber Co
14.70
Dr Johnson
16.00
Atlas linen
3.75
Reliable Exterminator
8 00
Kor-X-AII
19.04
Kor-X-AII
70.07
Public Service
. . .166 66
Bobby Albright
...430 95
A A. Huber
24.00
Vera June Albright
33.60
Susie Gentry
. ...100.00
Susie Gentry General Telephone
Skelton Skinner Douglas Neamann Larry Linneman Joe Ellis Heating Black Lumber Co Goulds Market Rose Jones Arab Termite and Pest Control Kor-X-AII
Montgomery Words William Hurst
William Hurst.
8.00 ....21.81 .96.95 .192.00 .369.80 495.84 .250.40 1137.41 ...64.20 ...20.00 70.56 ...24.90 ....10.00 ,...17.60
Putnam County Independent Ins.
Agents 228.00 Hopkins Walton Funeral Home 100.00 John F. Fisher 100.00 Norman Hutcheson 1416.66 Rector Funeral Home 100.00 Marie Windmiller 15.00 Elsie Foxx 350.00 Banner-Graphic 238.00 Kenneth Nix 2343.61 Greencastle Shell Service 435.76 Greencastle Comm. School 738.84 North Putnam School 472.05 Northwest. Hendricks School 316.69 South Mont. Comm. School 2379.97 Lebanon Comm. School 1128.47 Robert Miller 6.25 Walter Whitlock 6.25 Dole Miller 6.25 Greencastle Offset 17.75 Willard Scobbee 232.50 Robert Haymaker 26.10 Darrell Hinkle 23.10 Russell L. Porter 25.50 Ronald O'Neal 24.00 Janet K. Whitaker 30.90 John P Bergan 22.80 Max F. Smith 32.10 Paula A. Gorham 23.70 James R. McMains 22.50 Renos R. Sheese 29.10 JohnK. Robertson 22.80 Robert D. Schlatter 31.50 Violet Price 10.70 Alice June Hacker 10.10
Linda Nolly
9 50
Roland LeeTorr
8 10
Francis P. O'Brian
7 70
MorrisO'Neal
10 50
Ruth Steele
9 50
Paul J. Mayo
9 90
James F Wheeler
7 50
Wilma K. Simmons
10.50
R. Jane Harlan
7.50
Mary N. Hipps
9.50
Gerald Ray Stout
7 60
William F. DeBoer
10.50
Glenn E. Rushing
7 50
Robert Rent©
8.00
Betty J. Monnett
9.90
Robert EBreese
7 70
Marilyn Jackson
7.50
Roberg A Winger
7 70
Wallace Young Jr
7.50
David S. Sims
7 50
Norman l. Chadd
7.50
Delons Simmons
9.70
lawyers Co-op
89 55
West Publishing Co
78.00
TheW.H Anderson
20 00
Callaghn and Co
34 00
The Babbs Merrill Co
55.75
The Attorneys Daybook
10.00
The I B M Corp
29 96
Ace Hardware
37 13
Dr. James B. Johnson
49 00
Gerry Hoffo
10 00
Fairway Restaurant
32.79
I B M. Corp
967 00
I.B.M. Corp
90 50
3-M Business Products
130.25
FEDERAL revenue sharing
M. and W. Inc
2,750.00
criminal justice
Hart Motel
41.60
Winona School of Professional
Photography
70 00
Professional Photographers of
America
210.00
Motorola C. & E. Inc
801 00
ATTEST: JOHN CARSON
Nov. 30-IT
By the turn of the century, however, the dusty brownishblack bison had nearly joined blue-coated cavalry charges and Indian teepee villages as extinct Old West folklore. An attempt at a headcount in 1889 put the total number of bulls, cows and calves in the United States at 551. At Yellowstone National Park, Wyo., home for the last free-roaming herd in the nation, only 22 buffalo were found in a census taken in 1900. The National Buffalo Association says its records now show 15,000 bison belong to members in 39 states, another 5,000 or so are owned by other individuals and zoos and about 5,000 are in federal refuges. Archeologists in Wyoming have found centuries-old buffalo jumps, graveyards beneath cliffs where the animals were driven over the edge by Indians armed with little more than cunning in their search for food. Crippled animals that couldn’t get away were killed with stone-tipped spears. The “ciboleros” of New Mexico hunted the buffalo from horseback with heavy 12-foot-long lances tipped with steel, and carried away wagon loads of meat for drying. But these hunts were for food rather than sport, and left the herds virtually undiminished until the onslaught of hunters with guns in the 19th century. Now buffalo are more likely to be herded with all-terrain vehicles, pickup trucks and helicopters than with horses. And when a herd needs thinning, they are as likely to be sold to breeders as led to the slaughter pens. Roy Houck, president of the seven-year-old National Buffalo Association, has about 3,300 buffalo at his ranch at Fort Pierre, S.D. A cattle rancher, he started with 12 buffalo in 1959, because he “always kind of admired them.” Fellow South Dakotan Don Hight has about 2,000 head on his 35,000-acre ranch just south of Murdo, and there is another large herd at Custer State Park, S.D. The only other herd over a couple of hundred animals is at Gillette, Wyo., where the Cali-fornia-based Durham Meat Co. has 2,200 head on a 50,000-acre spread. Houck, who runs his Triple U Enterprises with two sons, is in the process of constructing his own plant for slaughtering. “For us it’s been a very profitable venture,” he said. “The return is about 25 per cent higher than cattle. You have a higher investment in stronger fences and corrals, but you have quite a saving on labor and feed once you are established.” Buffalo meat, which Houck says is eaten “pretty near exclusively” at his ranch, has a slightly wild taste but is usually less fatty than beef. Ranchers also claim the muscle fiber is finer and hence easier to cook and say the meat is high in protein and polyunsaturates. Houck markets most of his animals through restaurants and several supermarket chains, which sell buffalo meat as a gourmet item. Prices run about a third higher than beef. One of the big advantages of raising bison over cattle is their durability in poor weather, says Jack Errington, manager of the Durham company. “In winter they’ll forage for themselves — you don’t have to baby them.” But the self-managing virtues of buffalo also have a negative
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