Decatur Daily Democrat, Volume 47, Number 58, Decatur, Adams County, 10 March 1949 — Page 6

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Big Turtle Hunt Is On Al Churubusco Monster Turtle Is Seen At Fulks Lake Churubusco, Ind.. March 10 — (UP) — Farmer Gale Harris sought the aid of an expert diver today to help him capture Oscar, the monster turtle of Fulks lake. Harris had a theory. He thought the diver could find the monster, pump it full of air. and float it to the surface. iMany people hereabouts, including Harris and members of his family. claim to have seen the giant reptile. They said it looks like an overgrown snapper weighing 400 to 500 pounds and with a head the size of a year-old baby. Dozens of people flocked to the seven acre lake on Harris’ farm for a try at capturing Oscar. Some used chicken wire stretched between fence posts as extrastrength seines while they crisscrossed the lake in boats. Helpers stood ready on shore with ropes to haul Oscar onto land if the hunters in the boats ever trap him. ”We had him t-apped in a net Saturday but he slithered away toI one side and dove down into the > water," Harris said. “I think a diver would be able to get him." He denied a report that the turtle had come out of the lake and dragged several head of cattle into the M-foot depths. He said the "turtle's never been out of the lake, far as we know." The hunters trying to capture Oscar were spurred by reports that the Cincinnati zoo had offered

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Adams County Man Is Injured In Accident’ Berne, March 10 — Delmas Roe, of near Monroe, suffered a severe scalp laceration when the car he was driving rolled down a 12-foot embankment into the bottom of a creek a few miles east of Berne along state road IIS. Roe was driving east and attempted to turn north. He failed to make the turn and the car rolled over the embankment. The car was badly damaged and was pulled to a local garage. Roe was unconscious when pulled out of the wreckage but is recover-, ing and is able to be up and around. | SI,BOO for him —alive. Harris’ wife said two investigators from the zoo canne to verify that the turtle was in the lake. "1 don't know whether they saw it.” she said, "but they seemed satisfied." She said her brother. Charley Wilson. first saw the turtle swimming in the lake last summer. It disap-; peared from view until recently | when Harris and their son, Vaughn. | 12, spotted it again. She said Wilson's son-in-law also had seen it. Harris said snapping turtles in I these parts seldom get more than I 14 to 15 pounds in weight. Clifford H. Pope, curator of rep-. tiles at Chicago museum of natural j history, said tire record weight for | a snapper is 86 pounds. He said ; only an alligator turtle from the south could weigh 200 ponnds. Pope doubted that Oscar had come that far. Cincinnati, 0., March 10—(UP) | —The Cincinnati zoo today denied it had offered SIBOO for a giant turtle reported swimming in Fulks lake near Churubusco. Ind. "We wouldn't give SIBOO for any turtle—not even a performing one,” said James A. Reilly, zoo president. Some 30 to 40 men had been trying to fight the big turtle out of the lake for several days following a report from Churubusco that the zoo was offering the reward for Its capture.

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Man Is Fined For Improper Plates Marvel Johnson, of Decatur, has been fined a total of sll for operating a vehicle with improper license plates. The arraignment took place in the court of justice of the peace O. V. Blank at Bluffton. to report to work at the company s ; terminals today and supervisors said the slowdown still was in effect. Trade in a Good Town — Decatur

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Two Persons Injured When Autos Collide Two persons were injured shortly before noon today in an almost. head-on collision on snowbound U. S. 27 six and one-half miles north of Decatur. John R. Bowen, of Indianapolis, driver of one of the cars, f suffered a bruised right arm, and I Max Ziraet, of Chicago, sustained an injured left shoulder. * i The car in which Zlmet was rid- j ing wa. driven by Fred Friedman, of Chicago, and was traveling in j -a northerly direction when it was |

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