Indianapolis Times, Indianapolis, Marion County, 28 February 1947 — Page 29

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Are to Be Passed

"Ing legislation ‘affecting the state's natural resources and conservation

"a The bill setting up a® fund for|, pemyrk now connected with the

Legislators Must Act |

Quickly If Measures

. State Officials Urge Emergency Feeding of Birds During Cold Weather

By MARC G. WAGGENER It's going to take some fast action on the part of legislators if pend-

program 1s enacted during the remaining week of the current session. Btill hanging fire are several bills affecting the services which the department of conservation renders, enactment of which has been indorsed by residents of all parts of the state through the consérvation clubs and related organizations, | ~~" TT For the most part these pending (park superintendents and adminbills involve the appropriation of |istrators from Illinois, Michigan, funds for various conservation ac-|Ohio and Indiana. The group comtivities, , bined technical discussions with em enjoyment of winter sports, skiing,

On the Waiting List |bob-sledding and tobogganing.

I fish The meeting of the Great Lakes The bill to provide additional sh ,. 0 40ining institute, inaugurated

and game funds by hiking ishing joc vear at McCormick's Creek and hunting license fees and bOOSt-|gpq40 hark drew two former heads ing fees for other activities licensed |, to 1ndiana state park system: by the division of fish and gAME. rp, G, Sauers, now syperinPassed by the senate and aWAIUNg 1. qent of the Cook county (Illi action in the house. [nois) forest preserve, and Charles

development of the state parks by | ,.x system of the Detroit metroproviding facilities needed to serve \politan area.

visitors, The origina] request of $214 million shaved to $1% million. pn. . Still in the house. Bird Feeding Urged.

||P.) —Agents of the California de{partment of justice announced early today they had broken up a sweepstakes lottery scheme based on the $100,000 Santa Anita derby March 8. George H. Brereton, chief of the department's criminal investigation division, said one leader, of the

sweepstakes and five Sacramento selling agents were taken into custody at midnight, He said they

zil's Forest park and hundreds of others also operated by Héosier {would be booked as soon as the conservation clubs; have produced millions of game fish during the past decade to restock Indiana lakes and streams.

CID finished questioning them. Mr. Brereton said the ding was sweepstakes prizes of

Music Carnival Planned for Tech

The Technical high school: mu-| school. sic department will hold a carnival STOKOWSKI TOU! TOUR PLANNED in the boys’ gymnasium March 26. WASHINGTON, Feb. 28 (U. P.).—|0f convictions-for bunco and misThe war department said today that |demeanors in Portland, Ore. Leopold Stokowski, noted conductor,| He said the five local men would would make a concert tour of the|be charged with conspiracy to deU. 8. occupation zone in Germany |fraud. for two months beginning June 18.! Mr. Brereton added that the

In charge will be Gene Poston, Barbara Collins, David C. Fahey, Charles Hamilton, Alonzo Eidson

and J. Russell Paxton. Staff Sgt. Delbert W. Nichley has

promising $278,000, based on results of the

been named head of the Technical closing day race at Santa Anita. high school R. O. T. C. unit. He|mye said his department had found replaces Sgt. Leseston Riley who is they offered no guarantee of payretiring from active service. Tech. |ing off, Sgt. Stanley Z. Conway has replaced Sgt. Leo Lair who has beeng transferred to Shortridge high

He identified his No, 1 suspect as alter R. Doyle, 46, of Hollywood, Cal, who he said would be’ beoked on charges of grand theft. Mr, Brereton said Doyle had a record

LEADERS—New officers of the GAA and ‘the Senior.orily clubs at Southport high school are (left to fight] seated: Ann Wade, Betty Anderson, Rose Jeffries and Joan O'Brien, Standing are

Mary Lou Baker, Maxine Haines and Betty. Watts, i

sweepstakes ring’s headquarters ap- . parently was in Hollywood and that Hughes Undecided

agents of the Sépartment were Over Test Flight working .on angles of the case there, with additional arrests ex-| LOS ANGELES, Feb. 28 (U.P)

pected. Howard Hughes still has not dee me ——————————— cided whether to repeat the test JAPAN'S CHERRIES BLOSSOM [flight of an experimental army

plane which almost killed him last KAGOSHIMA, Japan, Feb. 28 (U.| ner his spokesman sald today, P.) ~Cherry blossoms appeared to-| ar Hughes returned from a vaday fully a month earlier than usual {cation in Mexico Wednesday night. on account of unseasonal warm |The second test of the XP-11

weather in the southernmost Japa-|photo-reconnaissance plane is due

nese island of Kyushu.

possibly within two weeks, The bill to double the present | Continuation of the emergency 3

2 forestry tax, adding approXimately feeding of birds during the period : $250,000 to present funds to expand lof low temperatures and snow-cov-4 state forest areas and forest fire ered ground, is urged by conservaprotection. tion officials. An especial appeal ; wt ges ‘The bill. creating an advisory has been made to conservation club EEATURING 1 group to assist the conservation members to see .that ample food ; ; ie department in reviewing proposed is available for quail, pheasants and ‘ state memorial and park areas. {other winter birds. , : The bill correcting flaws in a' No reports have been received’ ; #8 previous act authorizing counties to of game birds having frozen but a . . , ia

= unite in acquirinig lands for state lack of fogd now would weaken the § parks. ) birds, making them edsy prey to The bill’ giving the conservation disease and their natural predators. department further authority to ad-| Storm losses as high as 50 per ] just open seasons and bag limits cent of the pheasant population [#8 for the protection of fish, game has been reported from some sec5 and other wildlife. tions of Towa and Illinois. Several The bill making available funds states have reported this yéar's l for continuation of the topographic [storm loss of pheasants the highi mapping of the state in co-opera- est in six years, . . tion with the federal government, > en ! tees Park Hotels Busy k Funds Confusing | Winter months are no bar to en- | Apparently some Hoosiers are |joyment of the Hoosier state parks, | . confused over operating funds for AS evidenced by the number of ' the state parks and those for fish Buests registered at park inns, Ken#nd game activities. neth Cougil, state park director, All operations of the fish and Pointed out today. game division—operation of fish! Park inns are the setting for hatcheries, game farms and the | Scores of group meetings and conwarden staff to secure observance |ferences during the winter, he said, * of laws dealing with fish and wild- in addition to serving individuals. life—are financed entirely by the | INNS are in operation at Pokagon, income from hunting, fishing, trap- | 1 Wkey, Run, Clifty” Falls, Spring ping and similar licenses issued by | Min and ‘McCormick's Creek state the division. No state fax funds PArks. Although not crowded at

are received by the fish and game (all times, advance reservations are division. advisable.

Canyon inn at McCormick's Creek Ma Operationg of Ihe state Ro reopens to ‘the public tomorrow parks A anced | After having served as an emer-| by income from admission fees and {gency housing center for families concessions such as the park hotels, |of veterans enrolled at I. U. The supplemented by legislative appro- ma has been redecorated in prepapriations for specific memorials and ration for the reopening. some additional funds from the -

appropriation to the conservation | Indiana Ranks Fifth

Seperiment: game funds are used |. Indiana ranked fth in the numin operation of the parks and no |ber of hunting and fishing licenses

park funds are used for fish and 00 during 1946, according to an game operations. { United Press survey.

ery Michigan led the nation again] ‘ {with 827,309 hunting and fishing liPark Experts at Pokagon 'censes issued during 1946. PennPokagon state park has been host |sylvania was second with 678,228; this week to state and .municipal |New York third with 676,117; Ohio | fourth with 579,326; Indiana fifth

/ PRET | with 381295; California sixth wit LILIA RRMETIRN | ssi women's, xen. wih Walch Repairing 355.997.

1369,289, and Minnesota eighth with 10-DAY SERVICE South Dakota issued only 204,304 ~ licenses but since almost 100,000 \ RITE AA of them went to non-residents at look suits ond coats Eade povode TaVEL 3) J. SLED a high fee, the state's income of nee for the . $1,958,331 topped hunting and fishe JORDAN BROS.

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Quails Losing Out Indiana's curtgilment of game birds propagation, primarily an economy move, is in line with the! attitude of other states on the artificial propagation of quail, according to a recent ®urvey of 14 leading quail-hunting states. Ten of these states, Arkansas, Mississippi, Florida, Texas, Oklahoma, Alabama, Pennsylvania, North’ Carolina, Georgia and Illinois, found the releasing of penreared quail no contribution to hunting success. West Virginia reported artificial restocking helped slightly while - Virginia said that beneficial results were doubtful,

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