Sunday Gazette-Mail from Charleston, West Virginia • Page 34

Progress In Pollution if The State Water Resources Commission, which is charged with stream pollution control in West Virginia, has made considerable progress in this field even though it isn't always apparent. For instance, the commission has made enormous strides in controlling coal washery pollution. Secretary Bern Wright predicts this problem will be whipped in 10 years or less. Duriag the past fiscal year, 32 coal plants were added to the list of those with waste clarification facilities already installed. The Coal and Gauley Rivers are in good shape except for temporary breakdowns in clarification facilities, and progress has been made on the Guyandotte, Tug Fork and Bluestone watersheds.

The biggest headache in the fight against coal pollution is acid mine drainage. It is the hardest to eliminate because most of the drainage comes from abandoned mines. Kanawha County fishermen would have had a (rout stream close home--Blue Creek--if it hadn't been for acid mine drainage. The fish division would have stocked this stream had il been free of pollution. Industrial and municipal sewage wastes arc the other major contributors to stream pollution in West Virginia.

The industrial program is hampered by a lack of chemical engineers on the water resources commission staff. The commission requested a $127,684 budget for 1960-61 which would have enabled it to hire additional personnel. The actual appropriation was $86.135, an increase of $20,000 over the 195960 allowance, so it is presumed the commission can partially expand its services. So many compounds are involved in industrial wastes that highly trained chemical engineers are needed to deal with them. One plant may discharge 50 to 75 'different chemicals which must be treated differently.

Kanawha Valley industries have cooperated well with the water commission, according to Wright. Their personnel helped make a Kanawha River survey in 1958 which is the basis for an industrial waste abatement program now being formulated, and the plants picked up the tab for practically the total cost ($100,000) of the survey. Game Laics Confusing? I received a letter last week from Harry D. Elkins. 304 68th Charleston, who complained that fish and game laws are.

changed so much that people are becoming confused. "The great outdoors has always been my second home." Elkins wrote, "but. it is getting so you don't feel welcome in the woods or on a stream anymore because you're afraid you might be breaking a law. "The laws are switched and changed around so much I wouldn't be surprised if the game isn't eveti confused. Why can't people let well enough alone.

"Mr. Lane 'the conservation director) seems as though he wants a pat on the back because we have a deer herd in West Virginia. He isn't the one who has helped the deer herd. I BUT SISTER IS UPSET "According to the history on deer, there are more now than ever before, and I believe the cross-cut saw and ax helped build it up. of the timber has been cut over in the state, allowing the underbrush to take over and this is the chief food of the deer.

"Its been proven that wildlife multiplies where there is an adequate food supply. There is talk of a longer deer season. That sounds good, but it seems to me there should be less days of doe season that there has been in the past few years. "The squirrel season, most important one of all to me, has been changed, closed and re- changed until I'm confused. In your column a few weeks ago you stated that some didn't' want the season to open before Oct.

15 because of young SNOW BRINGS BIG CHANGES TO SUMMER PLAYGROUND Winters Tough in Jackson Hole Editor's Note For mott Americana, i'nus ia a season of minor annoyance, we', galoshes and occasional snow shoveling. But there are places where a a i ormMtce with winter KestioB that Cod and progress pulls on his pipe and speaks i alone up Teton Pass and stalked! Injured. And the majestic Tetons forget'them with the approach quietly about life in the Jackson and shot a 750-pound moose, thenifor years have lured climbers to of winter. Hole country. I dressed out the carcass.

their deaths. The temperature here has been "This valley is full of great; Dr. Donald Macleod has rea- 1 known to drop to 64 below zero, people, people who haven't lost son to be bitter it this stern! NOR ARE THE animals im- and five-foot -nowdriftsi their identity. The town of He lost his only sonimune. Out on the National Elk written entirely on mothers aren uncommon.

Water pipeslson itself isn't especially note-jwhen a snowslide engulfed the where up' to 15.000 nature terms.Here a report on coyotes raid herds of; worthy; it could be built any-j boy. But today, 14 years-later, i animals are provided winter feed vm.fr in a. region most sheep and school for some young-where. It's the country aroundJDr. Macleod is more dedicatedlby the government.

Manager people see only in oaimy sum- slers a 9o. mi i round tri Big us lhat cannot be repro( uced! I i a ever to tbe country and hisiErnest J. Greenwalt tells visitors mer I city shopping is available at Ida-helps us to relate ourselves tolfellow townsmen. ithat the handsome elk once By Jim Harpster no Falls Idano 10 and which is in natural perspec- 1 Hardship and violence are never by the thousands. That JACKSON Wyo wi The one 8 42Woot pass jfar away in Jackson during thejwas before 1912, when the gov- tne snowplows have carved "Out here." says Hagen.

"we white months, yet they are aiernment began buying the 23,691 don't live by our own rules. Wejcatalyst that binds the peoplejacres it now reserves for winter of by standards which can't be'more closely to their country, for elk, providing them frothy snow covered the valley Elk moved down from the high! Ur barS in I theater, one television the faithful, who will is one; manufactured or controlled." Grocer Bud Walters, once a i with hay grown during the sum- channel, Here thc country belongs to department employe, re- imer on this same land. it, oere for nf fnnrl ionium, uvc uiuse wiio wm nave cere IDF a For thc ailin two; it, enjoy and endure it-to peo- nd mournful debates at night calls that his rotary plow chewed! Hunting represents a substan- through 300 separate snowslides tial part of Jackson's winter (man and wife), two like Betty Michel and Dr.iin the area a few winters ago.jeconomy. but townsfolk nurture sicians. Donald Macleod.

jTeton County's first superinten-j a love for wildlife that transcends Betty, 23, is a pretty Utah-born! dent of" schools, Mrs. Martha its income potential. Ranchers squirrels still in the nest. They must'think that St grows pretty fast to be grown enough remote TM i IN THE WARMTH of an old! waitress in McGee's Cafe. She Marean, visited outlying schools who live up the canyons often are 'oming.

stove in 15 days. "Concerning groundhog hunting, the season is open the year around, yet you can't carry a gun in September. That is sort of mixed up too, don't you agree. What are we supposed to hunt them with? "I understand our game commission wants to spend several thousand dollars to huild a coal tipple for the tourist to see. Did you everiipOT of such a thing, when tourists can't get in or out of the state without seeing tipples and old slate piles along the roads and in our streams.

If they something for the tourists to see, clean up the streams and roadsides so they would be fit to look at. That would help us fishermen a great deal too--after all we pay for it." if Wildlife Viewpoints Obtained Discussions concerning the proposed January extensions on small game hunting have failed to bring in the viewpoints of the wildlife set. A Gazette-Mail reporter went afield last week and obtained the following interview: "A bird in the bush is worth two in the game bag." a worried quail admonished when asked its opinion of the proposed extension on hunting season. "I quail at the thought," the bird added with a spread of its tail feathers. "I don't want to grouse about it," a ruffed grouse put in.

"but this extended season is strictly for the birds--us birds." A rabbit hopped along and said he thought the proposal was hair-raising. No one disputed him, because rabbits are known experts at hare-raising. "I think we should table the proposal 'before we're the ones who wind up on the table," the rabbit added with a twitch of his nose. The reporter moved to another part of the forest where some deer were holding a stag party. "I think we ought to go on radio to oppose this extension." an impressive eight-pointer put in.

"I understand they'll do anything for a few bucks." An upstarf young spike buck said he thought (Instate legislature should do something about 'I hear they like wild life down there" he added. A cute-looking doe tip-toed in with a su bt tion. "Maybe I go down and fawn over them." she offered. This ended the interview. jHawks Beaten, Konrads Tops But Nail World Record Division TM This is the Jackson Hole country of today, little changed from more than a century ago when thc mountain men came down to hole up for the winter --and hence lend a name to the region.

In this spectacular country of towering peaks, abundant wildlife and hardy people, Jackson's 1,700 residents smile crantly at the flatlander's sug- Conservation Officers Begin School Today The annual school for conservation officers will begin today at the State Police Academy near Dunbar, law enforcement chief Art Bachman announced. Nineteen officers will attend the three-week school, which is required of each officer for a three- year period. The training consists of classes in subjects related to all phases of law enforcement, Bachman said. Guest instructors will represent the American Automobile Dept. of Public Safety, U.S.

Fish and Wildlife Service. West Virginia University extension service, U.S. Forest Service, FBI and private industry. State Supreme Court Judge Harlan M. Calhoun and Circuit Judge Charles A.

Dufficld are also scheduled to appear on the program. Two attorneys, John Anderson and C. W. Ferguson III, will present legal advice at a mock trial. Each of the Conservation Commission's eight divisions will also supply instructors.

Eight officers will complete their schooling this year, while five are just 'beginning the first of three annual sessions. in the living 5-feet2, weighs 118 pounds. The by ski and snowshoe. Now and of his home, artist Grant Hagen! winter before last, she hiked'then an unwary skier dies or is HUNDREDS OF ELK ON THE MOVE They Leave Mountains For Government Handout By Gordon Tail SYDNEY--M 3 )--John Konrads shattered his own world record in winning the 220-yard freestyle race but SALARIES OF state conserve- MINNEAPOLIS fAPi-St. Louis; tion employes rank 29th in the i clinched its fourth straight West-' nation acc ordin to Conservation 'ern Division title in the National 1 DirCCt de A wage i iu A increase last year helped to tempo- Basketball Assn.

Friday night sta bli ze technical person- to Minneapolis lll-'nel. Lane added. "As conservation departments 15-year-old sister, lisa, was upset Saturday night, Detroirs secoild placc pigtons throughout the country gradually the Australian Swimming Championships. The event ost their increasc salaries for same and TY technicians, competition for lie the Hawks when they also trained employes will also is serving as Olympic trials. John 17, holder of six world rec- ords, sped the 220 yards in 2 min-'freestyle records, surprisingly lost' Were defeated bowin to Bost greater," the director pointed out.

utes; 1.6 seconds, slashing three a 440-yard race to her keenest ri- 13(M '6. "It is hoped that last year's tenths of a second off the markal, Olympic champion Dawn Fra-' The Pistons, with 12 re- wa increase will help alleviate he set here Jan. 22 and six-tenths ser. trail tho hv i situation Lane a(Wed II off his confirmed record of 2:02.2. 3 Ule Havvks by 1 3 too much to train a man made a year ago.

MISS FRASER, trailing through ames a specific job and then lose lisa, who also holds six world most of the race overhauled thei Playing wilhout star Bob Pettit him." spectacular teen-ager on the next or the third straicht camp thr to last lap and won in 4 i COPIES OF "Our i 47.4 seconds. lisa clocked 4:50 be foi tlie Laket 's for, Water Problems." a publication "It was my fastest 440 yards n( time In ei Shtmeet- which (reats the comp i prob-i In SNOWY PLAYGROUND IN JACKSON HOLE Heavy Winter Snows Don't Stop Youngsters OF CHESS St. Francis Five In Eastern Prep This Week City Tourney Is Slowly Catching Up on Schedule called on to lend first aid to injured big game animals. If Jackson has a dual personality, it is because of the town's dependence on tourist income. Last summer.

million per- I sons swarmed through the com- i niunity on their way to Grand Teton and Yellowstone National Parks to the north. But onco the tourist and anglers and hunters leave, Jackson reverts to its chosen pace of leisure: gum-chewing, levi-clad Floy Tonkin once again finds time to write her weekly column of chatter in the Jackson Hole Guide: Drs. Macleod and W. W. EL more work only 8 hours a day instead of (he 16 hours demanded by the swollen summer population; Alva Rlchins and 60 others like crank up their snow- planes--peculiar vehicles fitted with skis and pusher-type aircraft engines that speed over ice and snow at speeds up to 125 M.

P. H. They seek the now lonely shores of Jackson Lake and cut holes in jice that sometimes freezes four I feet deep. From such a hole a couple of winters ago one local angler pulled a mackinaw trout weighing 32 pounds. The folks in Jackson ski, skate and play ice hockey.

They play cards, see movies and square dance once a week. The most frequent complaint is that from housewives who are victims of "cabin fever" but a fishing trip or a session on skis usually provides quick relief. 4-. JACKSONITES a happy with things as they are, however. They're pleased to list the town's residents by name and not by total number, although it was not always this way.

As a prospective community back in 1914. civic leaders found they needed 150 residents to incorporate. They drew the city limits as broadly as possible, but came up one person short of the required number. "We looked around and finally found a rancher's wife who was pregnant," recalls Dick Winger, retired businessman and one of the founders. By the time all the red tape was done with, we had our 150th resident and we wero lin business as a town." A hard land breeds hardy men, jand there's no better proof than in the story of Albert Nelson.

i He came here from Sweden and iset trap lines when white men i still were something of a rarity. jToo busy carving out a homestead marry until he was 55, Albert Nelson fathered eight children, lived to see his great-great-gran- children, and died at 94. is the world's No. 1 outboard By Edward M. Foy LEWISBURG-St.

Francis Prep of Spring Grove, runner-up, has agai invitation to play in the Eastern State Invitational here Feb. 25-27. ever." Miss Frascr said excitedly mss season. lems of public water afterwards. "Now I hope to set Pe ttit.

sidelined with fatigue, is management, may be the record." expected to rejoin the Hawks for without charge by writing Educa- lisa bettered the world rec- Saturday night's game at St. Louis! tional Servicing, National Wildlife ord last month when she swam against the front-running 1412 Sixteenth N. the quarter-mile in 4:45.5, beating Celtics, Eastern Division leaders. Washington 12, D.C. Miss Fraser by 20 yards.

Elgin Baylor, with 28 point, and surprised or disap- Hot Rod Hundley, with 23, led the Minor tournament (round 5) enough, Sammy lost two bye, Lowderibut to Seidman in seventh vs. ODDS AND ENDS: The Post Officp will ship tournament is slowly getting to Denker in The current issue of Chess Life.i lasl) place caught up on the playing sched- publication of the U.S. This is not exactly recent, news. am ule so that by next Tuesday most carries, without notes, but Pai Benko won the U.S. rapid of the games of the first i i games of the recently i transit championship in a tourney rounds will be completed.

jpleled U.S. championship r-j conducted by the Log Cabin Chess Games not previously played ornament. Chess Life intends to pub-! Club. Benko scored to Oth- prodnced lhe ish to 2: ha TM beei a blt Ured up their 17lh victory against 43! defeats. That was at 44-43 early i water conservatlon 16 to 80 horsepower NOW AT 510 Kanawha Blvd Easf PHONE Dl 2-0313 bring another to the tournament.

Its eludes Bill Scott Ferguson, Jon Gerling. An True, Fred Gerrity and Bryan Zimick. St. Francis was the fans' fa- for the Olympic llcr Coach Don Talbot by -TVTM in a forthcoming issue of Progres- THIS PUBLICATION, in hailing Bobby Fischer's third straight U.S. championship, also pointed out over John Scherer, while the Jat- ithat Samuel Reshevsky had won an article' Harry McKinney won Bob Stewart and lost to Dr.

ter lost a second game to Mike i lir in a row and. later, his fifth Fish Culturist. will margin at close; cern pon( mostly conservation! Wrcn 'P'wed ahead of sched. American title. But he only fmish- of the third quarter.

Hundley ffj cers obtained 8' prosecutions' Wren, also won from Stew- i eci second in 1951, 1957 58 and 190- P' ck ed i counters in lhe! A rin the month" of art who I 8 1 lost his adjourn- 1058-59, He dropped to third in penod to keep the Lakers distance out front. he does not want to bring her peak too quickly. pound youngster just" an inch un- nal enod to kee the Lak crs adding to the "general I ed ame to Edward Foy. der feet, was full of confi- sale sta nce out front. school fund.

control work-! At this wiling, thc eight contes- dence after his world record ef- T1 result snapped a from the state forestry di-i' ants liave Kcores as follows: fort. Laker losing streak and clipped vision visited 1,035 schools, 6 to 0: DwVall, 3 to a three-game victory string for ing to 82.453 students during Fov to McKinney. 2 tojO i according to a report compiled! 1: Pierson. 2 to 2: Hendricks. to 2'4: Stewart, 0 to 4: Schpr -'Pfl Ss llie 1959-BO tournament.

Oddly i i 'ii he said. I will the visitors. vorite last year because its play- ers weren't very tall and they break two minutes for the i c. r- relied on fast play and clever yards and 200 meters before the vcleltc the, by Assistant State Forester ball handling. This style Games.

I gave it a burst wks llh 26 followed by Cliff cry Kelly. them to the finals where they for the first 110 yards and was! gan tliat Remember, however, TM mm rounds. I MINNEAPOLIS T) i 7 Baylor 11 i 1 0 2 Ellis 7 3 7 3 1 7. Hawkins 9 2.1: Hundley 8 KrebJ 2 1 Si LaRuSso 4 1 10 8 0 16 li 101' Totdli 25 tl Technical fouls-Baylor, Hagan. McDougald 3 Contract lost to Greenbrier.

i swimming well. I rolled a bit on. St. Francis is the second third lap but my strength car-j Frrr sylvania entry in the tourna-j ried me through." jjfient. Shady Side Academy of; John wasn't pushed in his race.I has already entered.

iHe had a four-yard lead after two 1 jlaps and was-increasing it i 'the final touch. His times al each UlilCial Dies jss-yard mark were 28.4 seconds. ptJEICESTER, England, (AP) 1:30.4 and 2:01.6. John De-! Technical Husband. 46, one of Britain'sjvitt was second in 2:05.8 and Ron- 1 referees, collapsed at'ald Day third in 2:07.7.

Sonic Bahv Wins Ktmt during the.Leicester City-1 lisa, showing early speed, burst. 25 points below his lifetime avers i on it Bromwlch Albion game and into thc lead on the opening lap LONDON (AP) Some Baby, age. with only four homers and The in aL and after 110 yards led Miss Fra- camc through royally Saturday al 34 runs batted in. A IF THE CHAMPIONSHIP PHILADELPHIA Top passing honors in the 1959 Nation- zi NEW YORK (AP) Gil Me 't'Dougald, versatile Yankee infield- and pitcher Art Ditmar signed Saturday with the New York club. nament.

Only games completed in Therefore, all entrants in this division are very! strongly urged lo allend Ihe nest are the 24th and 25th Yan-j ro und on Tuesday night. If un Irrtrtf A IK A ciAOfiMn I 1 i i i gain champion Ballimore had Ihe highest average per passing allempt, 8.97 to sign for the 1960 season. i ab to attend, please McDougald last the playing of this ses-1 Unitns ri most yards tosses. 32, nnd the greatest num- of schedule at the Knichts of Colum! bcr of completions. 193.

wall. He was rushed to a hos- pitfll unconscious and died a few fftir trrlvil. pics, caught up on the next to last lap and pulled erftllly. i- Championship tournamentIplction averaw 58 Ponorlv'h'-irf come Tidings, other favorites ofi Ditmar won 13 games and lost, (round 6' Stewart vs. Duvall, 1 avera nad of the money in another race.

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