Decatur Daily Democrat, Volume 60, Number 21, Decatur, Adams County, 25 January 1962 — Page 8

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State Conservation Heads Explain Change In State Procedures

The state of Indiana has quit raising pheasants for free distribution in each of the 92 counties because kt was costing half a million dollars a year without actually adding very many birds to the •'kill” made by hunters, county conservationists learned Wednesday night at Adams Central. The department of conservation spent $5 million in the last 10 years raising pheasants, yet after the initial stocking, was unable to appreciably raise the number of birds killed, Donald E. Foltz, director of the department, told a large crowd, estimated at 150, at Adams Central Wednesday night. Research i n d i c ate s that this money can be better spent improving habitat rather than trying to provide hunters with S2O cock pheasants, Foltz and Woodrow W. Fleming, head of the division of fish and game, explained. Five Improvements Instead of free birds to raise, which was very enjoyable, but did not appreciably increase the number of pheasants killed, the state’s hunters and fishermen will now have: 1. A doubled land acquisition program to buy rights-of-way onto public lakes, and added public hunting areas. 2. A state-wide program to encourage farm owners to provide better habitat for wild life to increase natural survival and and production. 3. Four added fish biologists to study pond and lake management. 4. Continuation of stocking of new ponds and lakes with fish, and of public hunting areas with “put-and-take" adult birds. 5. Continued study of the littleunderstood factors which seem to have more effect on pheasant population and breeding than the things done so far by man. The department does not have all the answers, the new program is merely an attempt to find a better answer than the present program which is not providing good hunting in comparison with its cost, Foltz explained. Three-Hour Meeting The meeting, which got underway about 8:25 p.m., lasted until after 11:30 p.m., as Foltz and Fleming stayed to answer every question asked, even those asked by obvious hecklers. Foltz was introduced by Mayor Donald F. Gage, of Decatur, who explained that he was happy to be there, that in his book sportsmen were a special lot, who dedicated their time and energies to preserving the natural heritage of America for posterity. Mayor Gage then introduced Sen. Von A. (Pat) Eichhorn, of Uniondale, state representative Burl Johnson, of St Mary’s township, and a state representative from DeKalb county. 12 Divisions Foltz was then introduced, and he gave, in one-half hour, a complete summary of the conservation

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department, and what each division does, and what changes have been made in operation to improve the divisions. The department is broken dowr into 12 divisions, he explained The youngest division, enforcement, was created in 1957, when the conservation officers were taken from fish and game and placed in a separate division. There are now 101 conservation officers for the 92 counties, and it took approximately $1,032,000 to operate the division last year. This money, by state law, comes from the license fee money, as does the fish and game division money. In fact, slightlv more than half of the money raised by sale of licenses goes for enforcement. Seven Hunting Areas There are seven major hunting areas maintained by the division of fish and game. Two of them. Willow Slough in Newton county and Hovey in Posey county, provide most of the duck hunting in the state. The other five, including Pigeon River and Tri-County, provide a public area for hunting, free of charge. At Pigeon, river, which has been keeping records for just two years, more than 5,000 birds were shot this last season, a nice increase over the previous year, the manager of the area stated later in the meeting. These seven areas comprise some 45,000 acres of state land, but the land is not all contiguous. The department has now doubled its annual rate of land purchases to “block in” the remaining areas which grow more expensive each year, and to buy additional access areas on lakes which are publicly owned, but which cannot be approached except through private, restricted propertv. State Forests In addition to the regular hunting areas, there are 125,000 acres of Federal forests, all stocked for hunting, making some 300,000 acres available for sportsmen for all time to come. This, of course, is not enough, and will never be enough for the growing population, but it does help take some pressure off private land hunting, and it does provide at least some spots where people can hunt, he explained. Two Federal laws provide some habitat money for Indiana — these are the Pittman-R oblns on act, which taxes ammunition and provides about $350,000 > year for hunting, interests, and the DingleJohnson act, which provides for an excise tax on fishing gear, and provides $150,0001 a year for fishing pond, improvements. The forestry division is the, largest landowning division in the department, and was charged with Wells county game preserve originally. A state property tax of 6*4 mills per SIOO assessed valuation, part of the 1 cent state property tax, is used to acquire new forestry land. Presently the state forest - lands are stocked with deer, squirrel, grouse and wild turkey. Gas and Oil The water resources division of the department provides for lake and stream studies, ground water studies, stream studies and maps. The oil and gas division provides for orderly drilling and conservation of our natural oil and gas resources. At one time Indiana was the leading oil-producing state, but it did not have an orderly program to keep up its reserves. Adams county was then a great field, and still today more gas and oil remains in the ground than was taken out here, he stated. But, unfortunately, drilling was done unscientifically, and the remaining small pools are so located that,- wtulethere is plenty of gas and oil, it is not economical to try to remove it. Had a good conservation practice been followed then, this great reserve would how be available. The department of entomology functions because Indiana is the only state which actually has no real department of agriculture, he added. They study bee-hive management, insect enemies, such as Japanese beetles, etc. Nurseries in Indiana actually are third in dollar value of crops produced, behind corn and soybeans. Parks and Memorials Under state parks and memorials are the 22 state parks, and nine state memorials. Each year 2*4 minion people attend the state □arks. This past year Raccoon state park was added as the 21st, and Ouabache, pronounced Wabash, state park, formerly the Wells county state forest and game preserve, js the 22nd. By state law, Indiana is the only state except New Hampshire which draws all of its money for parks and memorials from receipts, Foltz explained. State law requires parks and memorials to charge 20 cents per person over 12 years of age, and 20 cents per car. This is the only money received by the department to improve and maintain the very

fine state park system. The state park system was established by Col. Lieber in 1916, when McCormick’s Creek and Turkey Run were first bought. At .that time state tax money was used, and Indiana had one of the finest state park systems in the country. Other Divisions The geology division is located at Indiana University, and it studies the coal, oil and building stone resources, mapping the sub-ground-level areas of the state. The public information division provides conservation information for the press and for the schools. The engineering division tries to maintain the more than 1,000 buildings owned by the department, planning ahead for all divisions. The accounting division keeps records of the money spent in maintaining the state property, and the 1,500 to 2,000 employes of the second largest department of state government. Not one cent is appropriated to maintain the state memorials, except from memorial and park receipts, Foltz explained. The Limberlost home at Geneva is an example of state memorial. MORE — MORE — MORE More Biologists Presently there is just one state biologist to manage the three fish hatcheries and give aid to the owners of 40,000 private lakes and ponds in the state in managing their fish resources, although more fishermen than hunters buy licenses, and more rabbit hunters , than pheasant hunters buy licenses, he said. By decreasing the artiount of money spent on raising birds, four area fish biologists will be added to help manage pond and lake fish populations. Wells County Helped Wells county has materially contributed to the state's conservation program, Foltz told the crowd. For example, of the 20 state conservation department directors, four were Democrats, and two of these were from Wells county — Skitz Simmons and Kay Kunkel. The third was newspaperman Hugh Barnhart, of Rochester. W. W. Fleming, head of the division of fish and game, was then introduced, and he explained again that while it was good public relations to release fish and game, 20 years of experience in Indiana, plus the experience of other states, indicate that it does no good to i try to add birds to areas that already have birds, except for immediate put and take hunting. Following Fleming’s explanation, which followed the same ideas, but in greater detail, than previously released in published stories, questions were asked the two men. The questioning session lasted several hours, and was closed by a long speech by Burl Johnson Foltz and Fleming stayed and answered every question asked by those presept. Egg Stains For egg stains on materials, scrape off as much of the egg as you can with a dull knife, then sponge the spot with cold water, or soak the article in it. If the material is washable, launder in the usual manner. If not washable, allow it to dry, after sponging with water, then sponge with some carbon tetrachloride. KOOKY KOSTUME—Costume inspired by tunic and pant* ct the Argentine gau> cho is being shown in Italy. Wedgfe shoes with four-indi

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Showdown On Cabinet Post

WASHINGTON (UPI) — President Kennedy today plunged into a showdown fight for congressional approval of his proposal to set up a new Cabinet Department of Urban Affairs and Housing. In dealing with Congress last year, Kennedy applied pressure but generally refrained from open conflict over legislation. This policy vanished Wednesday when he heard the House Rules Committee by a 9-6 vote had turned down h<s urban affairs bill. minutes after the committee action, Kennedy went before a crowded news conference to announce he would resubmit the bill in the form of a reorganization plan. Under this strategy, the urban affairs plan will go into effect unless either the House or Senate votes to kill it. The rules committee has no power to prevent a reorganization plan from coming to a vote. Furthermore, Kennedy said that if he gets his new department, the first secretary of urban affairs will be Robert Weaver, the present housing administrator and first Negro to hold such a highlevel federal office. Runs Into Criticism Some Republicans immediattly criticized the President on charges of attempting to mask his legislative defeat with a purposely generated civil rights issue. Rep. Clarence Brown, Ohio,

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senior Republican on the rules committee, said Democrats were attempting to convert the issue into "a civil rights matter.” ; “If President Kennedy really wants a Negro Cabinet officer,” Brown argued, “why doesn’t he name Weaver secretary of health, education and welfare to replace Abraham Ribicoff?” Ribicoff is expected to quit soon to run for the Senate in Connecticut. “This is a government of law, not individuals,” Brown said. “Mr. Weaver is not the issue.” In the rules committee, all five Republicans and four southern Democrats voted to keep the bill from going to the House floor. Five liberal northern Democrats and Rep. Homer Thornberry, DTex., voted for the bill. Kennedy, in his 20th Washington news conference since entering the White House, said he was “somewhat astonished at the Republican leadership which opposed this bill.” He said the reorganization plan would be submitted right away. Other Comments The President also stepped into some other legislative fields in his comments to 334 reporters: —He strongly endorsed the policy of maintaining some executive control over public policy statements of high-ranking military figures and other upper level government officials. The present degree of control is under Senate

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committee investigation. —He questioned a section of the postal pay rate bill banning delivery to U.S. homes of overseas mail held to be Communist propaganda. Such a ban, .he said, might cause Soviet bloc nations to crack down on what Kennedy said was much heavier movement of U.S. mail to Iron Curtain countries. He suggested the Senate reexamine this section carefully. Kennedy showed rare public displeasure when he lashed into a woman reporter for describing two State Department officials as “well known security risks.” He

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» THURSDAY, JANUARY 25, 1962

Local Witnesses To Attend Conference Forty delegates from the Decatur congregation of Jehovah’s Witnesses are expected to attend a three-day minister’s conference to be held in Elkhart, January 2628 at the high school auditorium. According to Clyde D. Steele, spokesman for the group, conferences of this type are held semi-annually and the purpose is to train Jehovah’s Witnesses in their ministry. This is pointed out in the theme set for the assembly, “Assist One Another to Do God’s Will.”