Indianapolis Times, Indianapolis, Marion County, 20 December 1940 — Page 9

"FRIDAY, DEC, 20, 1840

Rity the Ice-Fisherman

CONTINENALS WIN IN SCHOOL ELECTION

On a platform whose major plank was better inter-school relationships, the Continental Party won all but one office in the second annual elec~ tion of the Washington High School Student Association. Robert Millspaugh was elected President; Betty Litchfield, vice president; Charles Petranoff, corresponding secretary: Mabel Mohr, bress agent; Betty Gaddis, recording secretary; Dan Roth, sergeant-at-arms, and Harry Sullivan, treasurer. The latter was backed by the Progressive Party.

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By JOE COLLIER The man in the street fs quite apt to think of the ice fisherman as a person whose sense of values is in wild and tangled disorder. And the man in the street is apt to have sound, middle-of-the-road judgment in this matter. Nevertheless, ice fishing as a sport is becoming more and more popular in Indiana in spite of the fact that it is surrounded by more hardships than a Pilgrim.

The ice fisherman is a cold

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weather hermit who huddles against zero winds over a hole in the ice, Jiggling a long fishing line with numbed fingers until the hole freezes over. He is the chap who occasionally has to pull out the line and gnaw ice off the bobber with his teeth. He is the guy who, because of the law, cannot have an opaque or translucent wind breaker, no matter what an Arctic halloween the

wind and the snow are kicking up. And he is the guy who, according

to all calculations of the State Conservation Department, had a right to expect only 32 fish for each harrowing day he spends on

the wind-swept ice at his favorite sport. Yet of all the sports bugs which bite a man, ice fishing is the most potent and leaves its victim the riost rabid. There are ice fisher men these days in Indiana who will drive more than 100 miles over treacherous roads to get to their favorite lake.

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About 500 ice fishermen, each stooped over a little hole in the ice and jiggling his fishing line as if in some weird medieval ritual, have been observed at one time on a surface of Lake Shafer. Temperature: 2 above zero! Honest, no foolin’, Some of the ice fishermen—the sissies—have rigged up glass and cellophane tents to erect over their fishing hales to protect them from

merely to facilitate law enforcement. The law says a fisherman man fish through no more than two holes at a time. Some of ‘them have devised bos. On one side of it is a shell for lunches, on the other & place for tackle, and in the center a place for a gasoline lantern. Small holes then are pierced in the top of the box above the lantern, The fisherman sits on the box.

the zero winds. These are lawful. ' The ban on opaque shields is

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Thus, the lantern is used to light the fishing hole and warm the

fisherman at one and the same time. Mos: ice fishing is done at night and some times al] night, -As if thiz wasn’t enough, the ice fisherman is hard put to it to find suitable bait. The Kalamazoo wigler has conie up in recent years as prime bait. It was first discovered near Kalariazoo, Mich. and that’s the reason for its informa] name. What it really is is the larvae of the burrowing maxfly, and it’s almost as lard to find as the fish are to catch, 3

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LEGION POST SETS CHILDREN’S PARTY,

A joint Christmas for children of the Osric Mills Watkins Post No. 162 of the American Legion will be

held at 6:30 p. m. today in the Cen~ tral Avenue Methodist Church. The children will dipe on turkey, Christmas carols will be sung and Santa Claus will make an appear ance. . Howard Paddock and Mrs. Wile iam Ross Bolen are co-chairmen. Louis Grabhorn is post congpander and Mrs. C. J. Ancker is head of the auxiliary.

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