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6B ASHEVILLE CITIZEN-TIMES, Feb. 16, 196? On Some Occasions Your Pet Wildlife Fatalities On Roads Amazing War Life Gets Tedious For Outdoor Scribe 1 I tw i w.ar, Wi Birds This group of birds with their landing on International Speedway a wind and rain storm the hit ven inefficient. Deer ar obstinate, refusing all attempts to divert their innate course. In extremely concentrated wildlife areas fences are effective, but expensive, and few states can afford seven, foot chainlink fences. Night "scare" devices-flashers, blinkers, luminous glass and paint placed along highways, haven't reduced collisions substantially, and in some areas not at all.

A new metal Dutch type reflector mirror, which has been effective in Europe has been tried here with some success. But until someone discovers a sure way to keep animals off the highway, the best answer is for drivers to stay alert. Watch for the reflective eyes of animals at night as you drive. The best way to approach wildlife on the road is to stop completely. Expect the unexpected, for as soon as you have decided the animal will not cross, he will dart into the road.

If collision is unavoidable; don't swerve off the road, hit him straight on. Your chances of surviving are much better that way. As one Pennsylvania road sign says "Give Wildlife a Brake!" Material for article obtained from National Wildlife Maza-. zine. With A Problem Saturday.

The storm curtailed practice runs for races scheduled for Sunday and February 23. (AP Wirephoto) had trouble Daytona infield when the area you start thinking of turning around. ''I'll talk to those guys it's just too bad. No place to turn. Gosh I hate to disappoint them.

Guess they're waiting for me at home. Smoked all my cigarettes. There's a candy bar, in ire glove compartment. You stop. The chocolate bar is half melted but heck, the food value is still there." Now we're thirsty, no water, maybe a stream near.

No such luck, we've got to turn around. A few more sessions of twisting and weaving and finally an old road you can turn cn. A few more scratches on your car but at least you are turned toward civilization. The road back isn't too bad, if the tires will just hold out you have it made. The motor is cooling off now and the knock is gone.

Clear sailing, we thought, but don't be in too much of a hurry. You reach the main highway finally and feel good, although you keep thinking of those waiting hunters back there. Luckily an overall-clad man walks upon the scene and you ask him if he knew the exact whereabout of the hunters on the mountain. ''They went in there yesterday but didn't seem to be having any luck so left and went to another county," he said. The moral of this story? You win some, lose some and some get rained out.

We thought you'd like to know. Sohmar Table The schedule of Solunar Periods, as printed below, has beentatt'en from Knight's SO-LUNAR TABLES. Plan vour days so that you will be fishino in aood territory or hunting in good cover dur ng these times, If vou wish to find the best sport thai each day has to offer. The Mafor Periods are shown in boldface type. These begin at the times shown and last (or an hour and a half or two hour thereafter.

The Minor Periods, shewn In regular type, are of somewhat shorter Carolina Outdoors hundreds of miles upstream it DRAKE you creep along and you keep hoping for nothing to happen. Around each bend, you hope to see some signs of life but nothing yet. The gas gauge and all the other instruments in front of you are glanced at as you weave and turn on the increasingly narrow steep road. You wonder who built this road and for what purpose? Maybe an old logging road, surely no one could have ever lived in this remote land. You think: Those hunters must surely want to be alone.

Just who found this mountain? I wish I were back home. Those thin tires are bound to blow any minute. Is there a spare in the trunk? But you go on because a promise is a promise and those hunters are waiting with their dogs for a picture-taking session. Man and his dog share a close association, you think. The road levels out and there's an old fence with a no trespassing sign, At last, hone! The man who nailed that notice to the tree must have been plain nutly.

Imagine going out of your way to treaspass. You spot a sure sign of life on the remote road, an empty beer can. Yep, I'm reaching the end of the road. You creep on and the road begins to get rougher and you wonder if your family buggy will take any more bumping. Another steep incline and from the natural salt water and your motor in tip top con-habitat to spawn.

Most of these dition. Examine the boat for species provide an excellent sport fishery for salt water anglers, and all are important food fish. With the fishing season rapidly approaching, now is a good time to go through your tackle box to put things in order, check the windings on your fishing rods, and give the reels a good clean ing and oiling. Hooks probably need sharpening, plugs and other lures checked for cracks or loose hooks, and there have probably accumulated a few odds and ends in the tackle box that may as well be thrown awav. With the season will come the boating season.

Late winter is a By E. L. SHUFORD, D.V.M. According to the National Wildlife Federation millions of animals and hundreds of humans are killed or injured each year on our highways. The 'Humane Society for the past five years has directed an annual one day count of road-killed animals on the nation's highways.

Last year's tally, taken on July 4, totaled 1,314,835 animals killed. Ninety per cent were wildlife species. Official highway kill figures from four representative states in 19S7 showed that Pennsylvania led with 22,610 deer fatalities, probably the highest state total in the country. These were the animals actually examined by deputy and district game protectors and may be only half the real kill. Pennsylvania also reported 37 bears killed by cars and trucks during 1967.

Texas reported 16,145 deer killed on its highways in 1967, California 8,517 and Michigan 7,077. In this last minute roundup of highway. kill figures from the four representative states, some interesting facts were noted. Texas drivers, for example, often mount deer guards on the front ends of their trucks and cars. This apparatus nearly eliminated any damage to vehicles when collisions with deer occurred.

In Michigan in 1936, 218 people were injured in collisions with deer. Michigan also recorded two airplane-deer collisions. Few, if any, stales are adequately staffed or organized to investigate all road-kills, so many are unreported. Our national kill could be 200,000 or more, equal to the combined hunter-harvested deer of Oregon and Pennsylvania-two of the highest deer-producing states in the nation. Conscrva tionists and highway safety engineers are deeply concerned.

As we slaughter each other along our asphalt and concrete, we're taking our wildlife with us. Not only do large animals suffer -166 moose, 60 elk, 19 antelope, 17 bear and a few incomplete counts from states reporting other than deer, but countless small animals are crushed beneath fast turning wheels. Florida reported 5000 quail, 250 turkeys and 2,000 squirrels killed by autos; Arizona, 34 javelinas; California, one fisher, a rare species. Hundreds of thousands of rabbits are run down, carloads of pheasants, songbirds, rodents, and reptiles. Most wildlife accidents occur in the country, the forest, the desert, but surprisingly, many "just happen" in towns, cities and rural districts.

In one northern California town, thirty-five deer were killed by motorists within town limits. But it's on the open highway that the carnage accumulates, especially at known areas of wildlife concentrations and game crossing trails. Wild animals are creatures of habit, and persist in food, drink and travel patterns -down to the last surviving member. Large animals are collision victims more often in the fall and winter months, particularly in the West they've left the high summer range and migrated to winter feed areas. April and May are also high mortality months when instinct urges them back to high country.

Smaller animals suffer dur ing the critical time of nesting, littering, whelping and rearing of their young in spring and early summer. Gamebirds in winter weather congregate along warm black' top roads for a moment of liesure or bits of gravel. For many it's a moment of death, Warning signs restrain few drivers, they just seem to be a part of the scenery. In a search for a solution to this problem highway safety engineers have tried many devices. Game under passes nave been attempted and Sometimes Tales Get Pretty Tall By FRANK DRAKE So you think an outdoor writer has it made? Sometimes he has and sometimes he hasn't.

Some stories come easy. Some do not. In both instances, you cut open a vein and bleed. But that's only part it the other part is when you turn up with a happened" venture. Take this recent example.

You leave your family with a "I'll be back in a bit, going up to get a picture and some notes on a couple of hunters." After an hour or so you locate the turnoff from the main highway and the road looks negotiable for your low slung car. And at first it is. I But suddenly the one-car road Jooks like a trap with a point of no return. You've got no choice but to go on. You know the gas is low.

The rear tires are thin, but you continue for a while. Then suddenly it hits hits you you'd better get to the main road while you've got gas left in the tank! Somehow, you turn Uie car around and head back to the nearest gas station. Back on the repeat trip now, and you comment to yourself, this road would have been rough even for a four-wheel drive. You lower the gear as the road becomes narrow and you're moving ahead at a snail's pace. As you continue, tree branches begin to scratch the sides of your car; the motor temperature begins to rise, and heaven help us.

you hear a slight knock in the motor. What else can happen? It seems the rocks get higher and more abundant as Ski Report Skiing conditions were good at all slopes reporting Saturday at 8 a. in. HOUNDS EARS All slopes good with 20 inches man-made snow and 21 degrees. BLOWING ROCK All slopes good with 28 inches base snow and 20 degrees.

"i SEVEN DEVILS Advanc-' ed slopes fair and beginners slopes good with 15 inches man-made snow and 18 dc- grees. SAPPHIRE VALLEY All dopes good with 18 Inches base and 26 degrees. HIGH MEADOW All slopes good with 15 inches base and 22 degrees. GATLINBURG All slopes good with 21 inches base and 28 degrees. BEECH MOUNTAIN All slopes good with 23 Inches base and 18 degrees.

Player Wins Golf Tourney DURBAN, South Africa (AP) Gary Plavcr, with a record eight-undcr-par 64 over the last J8 holes, raced awav to an easv! victory in the South African! Open Golf Championship Satur day. I It was his fifth successive victory in the event. The black-garbed South Afn- can had rounds of 67, 70, 72 and 64 for an aggregate of 273 and won by six strokes. Trevor Wilkes, also of South Africa, was second. ASHEVILLE FLYING SERVICE Beechcrafl, Dealer IACY GRIFFIN Owner G.

I. TRAINING CHARTER SERVICE AIR AMBUIANCE SERVICE SIGHTSEEING TOURS INSTRUCTIONS OPEN 7 DAYS A WEEK 684-6873 New Abbeville Airport BY ROD AMUNDSON (Written for the Associated Press) Although there is still plenty of cold weather ahead, the sun gets a little higher each day, and its rays are slowly warming the earth and the atmos-1 phere. This increasing radiation and the accompaning warmth affects many forms of wildlife. Migratory birds become restless, waiting for the moment when they will leave their wintering grounds for their nesting grounds farther north. Cedar waxwings and other migratory songsters are already coming through in huge flocks, and will move on as far north as Canada for the nesting season.

Although we do not ordinarily think of fresh water fish as being migratory, but many of them are. Where they can, pickerel move from lakes and reservoirs into i a i a I streams for spawning, or from the larger rivers into smaller tributarial streams. Rainbow trout move from reservoirs into streams to find gravel beds in in wnicn to spawn. All trout, perhaps because of their salmon ancestory, show definite upstream migratory tendencies. Such introduced fresh water species as walleyes and white bass migrate from reservoirs into tributarial streams.

Bass, bluegills, crappies, and other panfish "migrate" only far enough to find suitable spawning areas in the water in which they live. A semi-technical report from Nebraska describes how Nebraska biologists use the migration of fish in fish management. Above one of the reservoirs they set up an elec tric device that diverts all of the migrating fish into a small impoundment. Here the game fish are tagged, weighed, measured. and released to go about their spawning.

Rough tisli are loaded into tank trucks and put up for public sale. falt water species are most migratory of all fish. Although much is still to be learned about their migrations, it is known that tuna migrate thousands of nines ana older non-spawning siripea nass move up and down the coast hundreds of miles. So do bluefish, dolphin and billfish Shad, herring, salmon, striped bass, and other species travel Conservationists Will Be Honored Xfe good time to get both your boat weak spots tnat coma develop leaks later on. You may need to touch up the paint or give the whole boat a new paint job.

If you are mechanically inclined, you can give your motor a through going over, to replace worn parts, check out the fuel and ignition systems, and so on. Remember, the most important part of a boating trip is getting back safely. Also remember, if your boat is equipped with more than ten horsepower, it must be duly registered and properly numbered. It also will be required to be equipped with proper lights, life preservers and other safety devices as required by law. continued, "I was grouse hunting not too far from here with a friend and somehow we got separated.

Hoping he was within hearing distance, I blew my gun barrel, waited a few minutes, and blew it again. Well, it work ed, and when we got together again my hunting partner told me about the darndest thing that happened. He said he was sitting on, a stump resting when he heard me blow the barrel. Sud- denly a boy came running down the mountain by him so fast he didn't see my partner sitting there. He stopped in a ditch down a ways from the stump and covered himself with leaves.

Then when I blew the second time, the boy exploded from under the leaves and fled, obviously in panic, on down the mountain out of sight." Wongrey winked at me and we hunkered down as Harrell went on with the story. "I was teaching at the local high school at the time," he said, "so I asked around among the students. In a day or two I found the boy and inquired about what had happened. 'I was deer huntin' out of season up there, he told me, 'and never had been that far from home by myself before, and I was a little uneasy. I don't know whether I was scared of being caught or of being off by myself.

Then about dark I heard this horn blow from way off. First thing jumped in my mind was that it was the end of time and Gabriel was blowin' his horn. I figured the best place for me was with my kin. I threw down my gun and ran down the mountain, but then I decided I'd be safe if I hid. So I covered up with leaves in a little ditch.

But in a few minutes I heard Gabriel blow again and figured he'd seen me, so I lit out for the house Course, when nothing came of it all night, I began to feel easy Wongrey and I found the story humorous but expressed good-natured doubt about its veracity. Now, A. D. Harrell is a man of unquestioned integrity and has never been reported to take liberty with the truth. When pressed, however, he admits that certain license is permitted in these matters when slight of the facts makes for a better story.

In any regard, Harrell takes no chances now on scaring boys in the woods. He carries a whistle. Sites Selected For WNCHSAA- Cage Tourneys Four sites have been selecteo for the annual Western North Carolina High School Activities Association basketball tourna ment. The Northwestern Conference will hold its tournament, Feb. 28.

through March 6, at Marion High School. Sites of the three other con ference tournaments will be as follows: Southwestern Conference at Crest High School, North Piedmont Conference at Davie County High School, and South Piedmont Conference at Concord High School. The winners of the North Northwestern and Southwestern Conferences boys and girls divisions will meet for their Bi Conference championshio at Avery County High. The winners of the North Piedmont and South Piedmont Conferences boys and girls divisions will meet for their Bl- Conference championship at Davie County High. Both Bi-Conference tournaments are scheduled March 10 and 11.

The association's finals are scheduled March 13th at the Lenoir Rhyne College gymnasium. Bob Deming Named Buffalo Grid Coach BUFFALO, N.Y. (AP) Bob Deming, an assistant football coach at the University of Buf falo for 10 years, was elevated Saturday to head coach. Deming, 33, succeeds Richard Doc" Urich, who resigned re cently to become head coach qf morinern imnois university. Deming played three years of collegiate football, as a fullback, at Colgate University.

After his graduation, he served as an assistant coach to Hal Lahar at Houston for two years before joining the Buffalo staff in 1959. He had been a defensive back-field coach for the Bulls since 1961. FLIGHT BAGS Tucks easily under vour teat weighs only 5 pounds made of rugged synthetic material, will lest for veers Really holds evervlhintl $19.95 FINKELSTEIN'S J- Estoblishad In 1903 7 S.W. Pack Square se fasten standard time. A.

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ur. uressman wm speak on which will be of great t0 anv The Sportsman and the An added attraction for the Friday afternoon session will be North Carolina's David M. "Carbine" Williams. Williams will present an In teresting talk on firearms and will answer questions submitted from the audience. Many will remember Mr.

Williams' life siory was made into a movie with James Stewart in the lead role. Other noted speakers will be Mr. Richard Pierce, former Outdoor Editor of the Charlotte Observer and currently with Duke Power Company, who will speak on "The Catawba River Story;" and Dr. Robert Lunz. Director of the Bears Bluff Marine Laboratory, Wadmalaw Island, South Carolina.

Dr. Lunz is one of the Nation's leading authorities on salt-water marshes. He will speak at the Saturday morning session. Dignitaries in attendance will include Mr. Pete Farrar, Assis tant Director of the National Wildlife Federation, and Mr.

Bartow Culp, Charleston, South Carolina, who is a former South Carolina Wildlife Federation Prpsirlpnf. jinH ic nnw fhr Rprinnal nirnplnr nf tlm Wo. nns Write VeriaralXm Washington, D. pecial events Included in the planned for the ladies in at tendance is a tea to be held at uie uweniui 5 Mansion ai p.m. on February 21, and tour of the Capitol City Trail.

For reservations for these events, please contact Mrs. Clyde Patton, 1101 Bancroft Street. Raleigh, North Carolina 27609 The convention will close Saturday noon. Anyone seeking additional information may con- tact Convention a i a Richard Spivey, 809 Pebble-brook Drive, Raleigh. North Carolina.

of RALEIGH More than 35 in-i dividuals and organizations will be honored for their outstanding contributions to the State's natural resources this month as the North Carolina Wildlife Federation holds its annual convention in the Capitol citv February 20-22 at the Sheraton Sir Walter Hotel. Host for the three-day event will be the Wake County Wildlife and Sportsman's Club. Members of both the House and Senate have been invited to the 8th Annual Governor's Conservation Awards program to be held Friday night. Over half plan to be in attendance. The Friday luncheon speaker will be Dr.

George P. Cressman, Director of the Weather Bureau Washington, D. C. This will be in Virginia Dare Room and is open to the public. A native of West Chester.

Pennsylvania, Dr. Cressman received his bachelor degree from Pennsylvania State College in 1841 Ins masters degree from New York University in 1942, and his doctorate from the University of Chicago in 1949. He served in the United States Army from 1941-48. The next three years were spent at the University of Chicago as a Research Assistant in the Department of Meteorology. From 1949-1954 Dr.

Cressman served as Consultant with the Air Weather Service at Andrews Air Force Base in Washington In 1954 he resumed responsibility for establishing the Joint Numerical Weather Prediction Unit. This special pioneered in forecast Unit Hit uciu Ul operational forecasting procedures by numerical prediction techniques. In 1958 he became By JOEL ARRINGTON BAKERSVILLE A. D. Har-rell sat on a rock pile, placed the muzzle of the double-bar reled shotgun against his lips and blew a long plaintive wail.

It was louder than I expected and echoed through the hollow with ghostly reverberation. From the top of one ot these ridges," he said, pointing to the Mitchell County terrain sur rounding us, "you coul3 hear that for a mile or more." Harrell owns a dairy farm near here. Some days there is just no time for. grouse hunting. Yesterday, for example, in ad dition to daily milking and feeding chores, he played midwife to a cow and settled the estate of a deceased mule which came out on the short end of an encounter with a truck.

But most Saturdays and many week-days during the season he may be found poking around Mitchell and Yancey county laurel "slicks" and rhododendron "hells" with his pointer bitch and one or more friends and guests. Today he was helping me host Jan Wongrey, outdoor writer Tor a South Carolina newspaper. "Several years back," Harrell and Ard Schenk of the Nether lands third in 7:31.3. Fornaess, with his second in the 500 and eighth in the 5,000, led the over-all standings among 31 competitors from 13 countries with Goeran Claesson of Sweden the runner-up and Schenk tliird. Fred Anton Maier, who won the 1,500, 5,000 and 10,000 en route to the last world cham pionship, was 14th over-all after finishing in a tie for 27th in the "jSOO and sixth in the 5,000.

Suzuki Of Japan Wins Opening Race DEVENTER, Netherlands (AP) NeilBlatchford of North American Speed Skaters Unimpressive In Europe DEVENTER, Netherlands, (AP) Neil Blatchford of Northbrook, won a silver medal by tying for the runner-up spot in the 500-meter race, but otherwise the American team was unimpressive Saturday as the World Speed Skating Championships opened. Blatchford finished in a tie for second with Das Fornaess nf i Norway, who took the over-all lead after the first two events of the four-event championships. Keiichi Suzuki of Japan won the wiqiwhviu miu fornaess However, before the day was over neither Blatchford nor Bill Lanigan of New York City was able to crack the top 20 in the over-all standings. Lanigan finished 21st with a 42.4 clocking in the 500 and 22nd with a 8:08.5 time in the meter race. Blatchford finished Wh with a 8:36.9 clocking in the llonaer race.

In the over-all standings, with the 1,500 and 10.000 scheduled for Sunday, Lanigan was 21st and Blatchford 22nd. The 5,000 was won by Kces Verkerk of the Netherlands in 7:24.1. Per Willy Guttormscn of brook, I1U tied for second New Shipments Just Received! ARROWGLASS, MFG. DUO and CRESTLINER BOATS for 1969 On Display at CURTISS I Coast-to-Gma llllllS Saturday as Keiichi Suzuki of Japan won the opening 500-meter race at the World Speed Skating championships. Suzuki was timed in 40.1 seconds with Blatchford and Dag Fornaess of Norway the run-ners-up in 40.3.

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