The Independent-News, Volume 104, Number 44, Walkerton, St. Joseph County, 12 April 1979 — Page 7

John Glenn Spring Sports Schedules GOLF APRIL 12 New Prairie 4:00 H 16 Tippecanoe Valley 4:00 T 18 Argos 4:00 Ply. C.C. 19 Culver 4:00 T 23 LaLumiere 4:30 T 25 Bremen 4:00 T 26 Plymouth 4:00 T 27 Marshall Co. 3:00 Ply. C.C. 30 Marian 4:00 H MAY 2 SouthCentral 4:15 H 3 LaVilfe 4:00 H 8 North Liberty 4:00 T 10 Fairfield 4:00 H 15 Oregon-Davis 4:00 H 17 Jimtowh 4:00 T 22 Sectional 24 NSC • 1:00 LaVille BASEBALL 12 Jimtown 4:30 T 16 New Prairie 4:00 H 17 North Wood 4:15 H 19 Culver 4:30 T 26 LaVille 4:30 H 28 Bremen (2) 11:00 H 30 North Libertv 4:00 T MAY 3 Fairfield 4:30 T 5 Peru 1:00 T 7 Jimtown 4:30 H 10 New Prairie 4:00 T 14 Culver 4:30 H 16 Argos 4:30 H 19 C.M.A.(2) 1:00 H 21 LaVille 4:30 T 22 Plymouth 7:00 T 23 Oregon-Davis 4:15 H 24 North Liberty 4:00 H 26 Sectional TRACK APRIL 12 LaVille 4:30 T 16 Culver 4:30 H 19 North Liberty 4:00 H 20 South Central 4:30 T 23 Fairfield 4:30 T 24 Westville 4:30 H 26 Jimtown 4:30 H MAY 1 Lancer Relays 4:30 LaVille 7 Argos 4:30 T 8 LaLumiere 4:30 T 10 New Prairie 4:00 T 14 NSC 4:30 N.L. 17 Sectional

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GIRLS TRACK APRIL 12 LaVille 4 ; 3q j 16 Culver 4:30 17 LaPorte 4 : jo T 19 North Liberty 4 ; oo h 23 Fairfield 4 : 30 y 26 Jimtown 4-30 H MAY I Lancer Relays 4:30 LaVille 2 Oregon-Davis 4 ; oo h 3 Plymouth & Triton 4:00 Ply, 4 Triton & Argos 4:30 Tri. 7 St. Joe 4:30 H 8 NSC 5:00 Culver 10 New Prairie 4 ; 00 T 15 Sectional GIRLS TENNIS APRIL 17 Knox 4J5 t 19 C.G.A. 4:00 T 23 LaVille 4 : 00 T 24 St. Joe 400 T MAY 1 Knox 3;45 h 2 S.B. Washington 4:00 H 3 LaLumiere 4:15 H 7 North Judson 4:15 H 9 North Liberty 4:00 T 10 New Prairie 4:00 H 14 Argos 4:30 H 15 Fairfield 4:30 H 16 Jimtown 4:30 H 19 Sectional TRI KAPPA NEWS The Epsilon Chi Chapter of Kappa Kappa Kappa held their monthly meeting Thursday, April 5. at the Walkerton United Methodist Church. Ms. Virginia Coffin, president, presided at the business meeting. Mrs. Glenn Jacob reminded members of the upcoming annual Arts and Crafts Show to be held in the John Glenn dining commons. Judging will be Saturday, April 21 and the public showing will be Sunday. April 22 from 2:00 to 4:30 p.m. Plans for the style show , “Summer In The City", which will be presented April 19 at the Urey Middle School, were finalized by Mrs. James Patterson, co-chair-person. The show will begin at 7:30 p.m.. doors will open at 7:00 p.m. Members were reminded to dress casually for the May 3 meeting, which will be “Lori's Game Night".

Mrs. Leo Mahoney announced that the Chamber of Commerce is reorganizing and that there are openings on several committees for persons interested in becoming active in community improvement and development. hollowing the business meeting, a pledging ceremony was held for Mrs. Gene Hardesty. Mrs. Robert Holland, Mrs. Roger Huizcnga, Mrs. Donald Ludwig, Mrs. John McNeil, Mrs. Roger Norris, Mrs. Leo Savoie, Jr., and Mrs. John Thomas. Miss Susan Carter and Miss Jill Lowry, college students, will be pledged at a later date. Hostesses for the evening were Mrs. Robert Wieczork. Mrs. Rudy Knaus, Mrs. Harold Rizek and Mrs. Norman Bierly. WILDLIFE TODAY By Jim New Wildlife Biologist Indiana Division of Fish & Wildlife Have you ever heard the word “anthropomorphism"? Webster defines it as: an interpretation of what is not human or personal in terms of human or personal characteristics, humanization. What we as biologists call it is trouble. An excellent example of anthropomorphism is found with the cartoon characters, Donald Duck, Bambi. Sylvester anbd Tweetie Bird and on and on. Nearly every animal you can think of has been humanized. The education of humans is extremely important and best accomplished when the individual is young. American children simply do not have a chance. From the day they are old enough to keep their heads upright they are plopped in front of a TV and taught that animals are just humans in a different form. How many of us still think, at least subconsciously, that there really is a Yogi bear in Yellowstone Park and that Bugs Bunny lives entirely on carrots? If you visit Yellowstone you'll be very lucky to see a bear in the wild. People are constantly feeding the Yogis and can't understand why Yogi would occasionally maul a human. To protect the humans the bears must often be destroyed. Another example of humanization is the purchase order we have on record for several hundred dollars worth of carrot seed. This was requisitioned for our department by a well-meaning person who wished to help produce more Bugs Bunnys. Real rabbits are not that fond of carrots. The humanizing gets extremely difficult to handle when scientific wilflife management is called for. Hoosier hunters harvest over one million “Bugs Bunnys" each fail. The next year reproduction has built up population numbers so that another million can be harvested. To this some people object, yet you can build a home in a wooded area, cut down the trees, tear out the briars and destroy the homes of countless future rabbits and few people care. Many people object to hunting doe deer. We realize it is necessary to control herd population, and hunters take their share, but most hunters object to shooting “Bambi" fawns even if those fawns could not survive the winter and were an additional burden on limited food supplies. All of these problems have been compounded by the humanizing of wild animals. You as adults can help. The next time your child watches a cartoon, take the time to explain that life in the wild is real and full of things that we as humans cannot comprehend. and that it is not just Elmer Fudd chasing Daffy Duck. The bobwhite quail is a bird that has been familiar to Hoosiers since the early settlers. The familiar “bob-white" whistle is probably the single most easily recognized and widely known bird call in Indiana. Maybe we should say it WAS the best known call.

THE INDEPENDENT-NEWS - APRIL 12, 1979

The bobwhite is in serious trouble. We're not ready to call him extinct, but his numbers are extremely low in this area. We keep fairly close track of the quail as they are one of the finest of our native game birds. Back in 1974 we predicted a reduction of these birds and it occured. We knew that the lack of farm set-aside ground would seriously decrease quail habitat and populations would fall to levels equal to the remaining habitat. If the loss of this habitat wasn’t bad enough, the last three winters have done the trick. Biologists run surveys every year to get information as to the trends in wildlife. Quail surveys are run at dawn throughout the state. Whistling males are counted at each mile of the route. The same routes are run each year so comparisons can easily be made. An index of 3.0 means more than 2 conveys of quail per square mile and is considered fair. Indexes of 1.5 to 3.0 indicates Ito 2 coveys per square mile and are considered poor. Indexes below 1.5 mean less than one covey per square mile and are rated as extremely poor. An

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index of less than 0.5 means questionable survival for the quail population in that area. We in the northwest part of Indiana have four basic regions for purposes of quail management. Region A went from an index of 1.17 to 0.49. Region C stayed at 0.05. Region D dropped from 1.53 to 0.50 and the Region F index dropped from 0.45 to 0.08. The indexes were from counts in 1977 and 1978, respectively. What does all this mean? It means that some areas have zero potential for recovery of former quail populations. Other areas have a limited chance at best. What will the state do? We will survey this spring to determine how many birds made it through this winter. Then we will have to plot the future of the bobwhite quail. Stocking of wildlife is generally a waste of time and money under normal circumstances. We aren’t under anything close to normal circumstances! "You never know what is enough until you know what is more than enough." William Blake