The La Crosse Tribune from La Crosse, Wisconsin • Page 15

Ca QJrnfisr Suniiag uribmtp 15 Pleasure Boat Tax Bill Is Up For Consideration FLOCK OF MALLARDS A large flock of mallards is shown rising from a flooded millet planting on the Wood County Public Hunting Grounds. Wisconsin Conservation Department game managers developed these areas to tract and hold ducks for better hunting. This year, acres were drained and planted and then reflooded in September. Thousands of ducks have used such areas since Oct. I.

ON OPENING WEEKEND Pheasant Success In Area Up About Simple Fishing Rules Sought, But Tough Job Hunters on Coulee Region pub-'we want hunters to bag them; lie hunting grounds bagged 20 per that's why we stock De cent more pheasants i Boer says. crosse Tribune Madison Burnut I weekend this year than they did He says that additional birds you think you in 1960, says area game supervis- will be stocked twice during the bke a short and simple statement or Stanley DeBoer. His report is season maintain good hunt -00 Wisconsin fishing regulations'? based on spot checks of the seven able The conservation department public hunting areas operated in Informal reports from the bet readily admits that the wish is a this game management area, der pheasant spots throughout the reasonable one, but it ruefully average hunter's success west central arca indicate mod- concedes that in spite of more rose about IO per cent over last estly higher success with more than IO years of trying, it has year, but there was also an in- birds being flushed than in 1960, been unable to achieve that ideal, crease in the number of hunters he says. afield so that the total kill actual Turning to geese, DeBoer says The state fisheries division for Iv rose DeBoer says. He that between 90 and 200 hunters many years has been trying to says that checks showed about are reporting to Necedah each provide more freedom for the ang- one hunter in three got his one day.

ier, by removing as many of the cock limit while last year it was carnival atmosphere has local and special rules as possi- closer to one in four. left the area. Only the old die- hie. by avoiding technicalities. it hards are back," he says.

and by liberalizing the harvest The number of hunters on the Ut said that about 500 geese and season restrictions in tune Bangor grounds almost doubled have been taken so far. The quota with advancing biological knowl- from 1960 while the Van Loon area 1S 2 000 edge. remained about the same. out of the refuge are the goal of that heavy cover he says, add- mg simple, readily understood and rough going on Van Loon dis- in8 that hunters on state and ad- regulations has not yet been ac-, courages many he savs joining private lands are taking IO confessed Dr. E.

W.i He reports the conservation de- t0 20 geese a day. Schneberger. chief of the state partmcnt estimates the opening chances arc, hunting isn't fisheries division, in a report to weekend bag was 350 cocks on lo pot any better until the the Wisconsin Conservation Com- the Bangor grounds and 180 supply in the refuge begins mission. cocks on the Van Loon area. t0 diminish.

This shouldn't take he went on with com- it it ii long. I'd guess in about a plete candor, trend has been the numbers of birds re- he says. just the opposite in that our regu- leased in these areas, we know have become more com- there are many left and hunters Golden Eagle Shot should keep after them. After all. A a Arter Attacking Dog I The trouble is people.

Research GOFFSTOWN. N.H. specialists want some UAV flf State Fish and Game Department rules in particular localities for DUA VI reports that a Goffstown hunter experimentation purposes. shot and killed a golden eagle Law enforcement officers find a ii aa which had swooped down and loop-holes in the fishery code and HAI IC MOSn picked up his dog, insist that they be plugged. JllvllJ I IwUll The department said Roland County units of the advisory St Onge.

24. was hunting rabbits Wisconsin Conservation Congress Sunday when the huge bird at- frequently make proposals on re- shells is a tacked his 20 -pound beagle. gional and local situations, which numbers describing the load, i St. Onge said he a chance conservation commission The meaning of these symbols A living Tribune Madison of more than 10 1,000 animals by Wisconsin Con- ea 8 7 8 Officials said thedog's nose the fisheries of- GOV. NELSON STILL PUSHING Lake Zoning Idea Very Much In Wisconsin (La crosse Tribune Madison Bureau) The enabling act as offered! reassurances.

Such controls idea of permit the Wisconsin Con- would be sparingly used, accord- lakes for recreational use Commission to impose ing to Lester P. Voigt, director of mains very much alive in Wis- zoning rules where they are need- the Wisconsin Conservation De- consin government circles, despite ed. and after full public hearings partment, and would be applied the defeat of enabling legislation following the pattern of fish and in the first few years only to tho earlier in the year. game regulatory lawmaking. areas of heaviest traffic coneen- Gov.

Gaylord Nelson, probably! it it Aration, in all likelihood, the most enthusiastic advocate int Some critics have envisioned a "There will necessarily have to Wisconsin public life of the view system of control in minute de- be an experimental period in this that increasing user pressures on tail that would hamper the free the department head said. recreational waters require of recreational waters and re- We are already learning from I Wisconsin's pleasure boat own-hers by Pres. Carl N. Otjen public controls, is pushing for leg- strict the traditional rights of some of the experimental 150,000 of them at last count, of Milwaukee, and said: islative reconsideration of boaters, bathers, water ski en- we have applied on waters that I will have a chance to gain some is the thing I found so measure that as defeated in the thusiasts, fishermen, hunters and are now exclusively in state own- I tax relief when the legislature re- assembly with scant discussion many others. ership, such as Yellowstone Lake (convenes Monday.

your boat is not used summer. I But state officials are Southwestern Senate Bill 97. which will ex- commercial purposes, you do not' empt pleasure craft from the gen-have to file the return. You are BY DEPARTMENT i oral personal property tax. will be still liable for a tax, however, up for consideration.

The bill was it it it introduced by Senator Earl D. 22 nd Dis- to file a return merely According to the Depart- means that the assessor will have ment of Resource Development, to locate and value your boat Wisconsin has registered 130.000 himself. pleasure boats owned by resi- Gronouski said that dents, and 20,000 pleasure craft every possible roadblock in the owned by out-of-state residents, way so a tax will fail is wholly Wisconsin law requires that own- ers register their boats in the The leaflet was sent out last; state of principal use. (June in support of a bill to elim- it inate the personal property tax on Boat owners have complained boats' a heated nervation Department is anxious- that they are singled out for per-! tr.oversy and aP' Iv awaiting final legislative deci- sonal property taxation because'plication through the state. sion on the problem of fixing of the Wisconsin boat registration pronouskl sald the association thc jocai tax liability of the law while other sports equipment t0, get, exempted creasing acreages of land being such as golf clubs hunting equip- brough legislative action was acquired for state recreational ment and tennis racquets go un- including public hunting and taxed because no means arp ran Ma.Mp.iiTi .1 j.V Ifxi Ashing grounds, available to county tax assessors 1C JUt kl Land lax Decision Is Awaited (La Crosse Tribune Madison Wisconsin Con it it The first zoning rules won excessively detailed, he said.

The evolution will more likely follow the pattern of the motor vehicle code, which was adopted with the inauguration of automobile traffic 50 years ago with a few simple rules, and has developed in succeeding decades in response to I changing conditions and increasingly dense highway traffic. Since the original proposal on the subject, the department under a special legislative act has been collecting data in detail on the lakes and rivers of the counties, which will he put into separate county bulletins for use in the development of regulations in later years. 6. NOMINATIONS FOR member- 0nc ojwjy bulletin has already The department has worked out ship on the Badger State Sports- appeared. It covers the lakes of 1 Kenosha County, rn the heavily $120 Lawson, refuge manager stationed in La Crosse, poses in his new $120 uniform, mandatory for certain federal conservation ployes.

The cost; coat, $47 50; pants, shirt, shoes. $15; hat. 10 tie, belt and socks. $2. Lawson is allowed $100 a year for this plus two field Photo.

to trace their ownership. I Senate Bill 97 originally passed; the Senate Aug. 9. and went to assembly where it was! amended to include a 2,000 ceiling on the exemption. After passage by the assembly, the bill was I returned to the Senate for reconsideration.

Rejected by the Sen ate, the bill was turned over to a joint senate-assembly committee for study during adjournment. I Rejected by the Senate, the bill was turned over to a joint senate- i assembly committee for study i during adjournment. it it it I It is believed a recom- imendation on the bill will be I made shortly after the legislature reconvenes. what it hopefully calls a compro- men Club board of directors will mmkmz age OF WATERFOWL TAIL FEATHER JTIPS INDICATE AGE QUICKLY mise proposal that would put a be at 8 m. Thursday ceiling on such tax claims by lo- American Legion, 215 S.

cal government units. It has pro- it it it posed that such lands be taxed by localities at a fixed rate of 1.5 TEN HUNTERS rn the southeastern section of 6 th St tbe state wbere zonin8 rules ara likely to be applied earlier than in some of the more thinly recently re- tied regions of upper Wisconsin. turned to Sparta from a hunting; work has been completed ZdTlboTl PUrthaSC PnCe 10 Dakota- and publications will soon te is- Tho issue is a tender one in the iUed 12 with lnral Eugene Clark and Wag Riskie Racine, Green. Walworth, time of im. Chicago, Frank Murray of Me- Dane.

Polk. St. Croix, Dunn, Vi- governments at immense pressure for additional ii lands acqui inauguration nomonie and Spartans William jaS( Marquette, Waukesha, Cluppe- nuhlir recreational lands acauisi- Sam 0 a I wa and Rusk and a survey crew lion. and at the inauguration of Blel' John RaS. is rolteotins lake characteristics.

mussen. Richard Lamers and traffic and other relevant data in the new crash program of land ii Frank Wendorf. (buying that will have $50 million available to it during the next IO Menominee County 'Central Wisconsin. in North What Numbers I MADISON (AP 1 State Tax, Commissioner John Gronouski says that a suggestion from the Wisconsin Boating Association that pleasure boat owners should not file personal property tax returns on their craft is Gronouski showed newsmen a leaflet sent to association mem- aniel a poole writing in THE AMERICAN RIFLEMAN MAGAZINE, DESCRIBES QUICK, EASY METHOD OF DETERMINING THE AGE OF DUCKS ANO GEESE. pread the tail feathers for CLOSE EXAMINATION.

IF YOU CAN FIND ONE OR MORE FEATHERS (A), THE BIRD HATCHED DURING THE PREVIOUS MARKS LENGTH OF BA8V BIRD'S DOWN-COVERED FEATHER. AS FEATHER GREW; THE DOWN WORE OFF. AT IS (MOST VISIBLE EARLY IN THE SEASON. ADULT'S FEATHERS ARE INVARIABLY POINTED A WHITE MALLARD duck was shot last Sunday in the Reno bottoms by Dr. H.

L. Barton. La; 1st Steps Taken Meanwhile, it hesitates to subject its land investments whims of local assessors. Under the law as it stands today, such public lands are subject to tax assessment for local Brucellosis Not Hazard To State Deer years. The department knows that it buv and manage such hands successfully without Minn.

Barton was hunt- OH benevolent interest, or at least Ro and F'tzpatrick. La For Purchase UT the neutrality, of influential local frescenb "ho' alon8 town and county board members, yame Hill Farm duck the week before in the Reno bottoms. The bird will be mount- MADISON LAP P. Voigt, 0 ed. The two hunters also bagged director of the Wisconsin Conser- two green-head mallards and a vation Department, said Friday black mallard.

that the first steps have been talc- it it it en to implement the uuTTiru i uirxmpDc A tion Commission decision to buy (school are the land WHITEHALL HUNTERS Ardeb San(j Hill eama of other state agencies. Melby and La Mome Olson. Em- Countv for $247500 Under the proposal now ready est Bautch of Independence and farm Cunty for for submission to the legislature. Orville Dahl of Strum bagged a the department would anticipate moose and tbree deer wbde on a commission gave prelim; future school tax changes through'recent hunting trip to Kenora.iinary approval to the purchase at 'an clause to be ad- its last meeting and its land com- ministered by the state depart- mittee and department personnel ment of taxation. i ABOUT 50 per cent of the have completed the transaction.

The department estimates that pheasant hunters in Trempealeau Next action is executive office ap- gar is an fire the flesh has been described its school tax burden ultimately County got their limit in the firstiproval of the agreement. On the flap of a box of shotgun outlaw fish that fearlessly attacks as well flavored reach $150,000 a year under two days of the season. The entire region will be used series of letters and game fish, water birds and even the schedule it proposes. Today it it it iexperimentally as an outdoor lab- Most fishermen who hunt the is paving about $43,000 oratory to demonstrate habitat Gar Is Good Sport Fish, But It Is Also Dangerous people. is paying fossil, the gar is a gar do so for sport.

A big gar is; holdings. Unce said hp took a chanco ne consrcrvaiion tumuusaiuu MVC at the lends to accept. Other requests should be known to weH-versri member of an ancient group of a tough and dangerous The leg.slat, which had a 612 -foot wing come from individuals and groups hunters, but often doesn make fishes that lived 300 years When hooked and drawn along- year adopted and was flying' slowly. of individuals, and -even from sense to the less experienced ago the National Geography So- sate a boat is usually dis ta rty bdl for on its! BERNARD ZIELINSKI. 710 N.

10th brought down a 138- improvement. managed hunting scratched slightly. ificial told his superiors. port on brucellosis in the Wisconsin deer herd. Only one reactor was found in the testing series, showing that the disease is not; the hazard among Wisconsin deer; that it is among Wisconsin dairy' cattle, and among the bison, elk and moose of the West, a department science bulletin relates.

it it it State game men are steadily enlarging the devices through which they keep informed on Wisconsin game population trends Basic reporting sources include! the crop reporters of the state-fed- Hunters in this, a marginal pheasant area, were quite successful. use(j generally inac- jng 20 feet long and weighing been caught in one night, eral agricultural service stationed a small increase in native birds, supplemented by releases of curate known velocity of the shot thousands of pounds circulate out it it it in every towTi, and the wide rang- conservation club reared birds, and conservation department stock- charge. This led to the designation 0f the bayou country, but such Experiments in gar control ing rural mail carriers. 'nS on public hunting grounds, the pheasant hunter had a pretty loads by powder charge weight, leviathans apparently always get have been made with an electric Frequently agricultural produc- opening. The avoirdupois dram was a unit away.

No one has proved their shock apparatus, stretched across ers in particular areas, such as The weekend was spent on the Bangor Public Hunting Grounds 0f convenient size, being 1-16 of existence. (narrows or mounted on a barge, the cranberry growers of central Setting information on hunter success. Hunters had a field day on an ounce The alligator gar. however, sur- Curiously, a shock that would only and upper Wisconsin, will also be Saturday. Six out of IO hunters got a bird.

loads were defined by passes io feet and weighs 300 stun most fish will kill the fero- polled for their observations on Sunday success was not as good, but still one hunter in four the number of drams of black pounds. It flourishes in both the cious gar by paralyzing its primi- grouse, deer and other garnet at For the entire weekend, the success figure was powder which they contained and iakes 0f the Ozark Moun- tive breathing organs. rn rf doe last SumiaT in Jackson aad a broader tax Ha- County with a bow and arrow. He conservation depart used a 57 -pound bow and a four- Half of the funds for the For example, a box of SP shot- ciety says. Its armor-plated patched with a bullet through the ment properties, but it was vetoed blade razorhead arrow.

It a chase will come from the regu- gun shells might be marked a I can turn the sharpest head, for nothing else can pene- by Gov. Gaylord Nelson who sug dropped from about 40 yards, lar conservation department land 12-6 The 12 knife. Indians used the scales as trate the protective scales a gested that an attempt be made This is the second deer Zielkinski budget and the remainder from means the box contains 12 arrowheads. American pioneers bones. to work out a new plan that would has shot in three years with his cigarette tax money under the gauge SP shells with number 6 shielded their ooden plows with Some states recognize the gar I be agreeable to all parties in-1 bow'.

He is a field captain for the new resource program sponsored PHEASANT TAKE GOOD The opening weekend of the shot: 334 4 6 indicates the the scaly skin before steel be- as a pest and have sought to con- volved. shells are loaded with powder came plentiful. trot it by laws, traps and elec-; equivalent to 334 drams and With stealthy movements, tricity. All gars taken in Louisi- ounces of number 6 shot. Simple, the gar hunts its prey.

It strikes ana must be killed, and those but what does powder equivalent from the side with lightning over a foot long must be slit to 334 drams mean? speed, seizing its victim in long open to be certain they dont sur- it jaws filled with sawlike teeth. 'vive. the old days of black pow- it Trapping has proved effective der in explains Ted Some species of gar are found in controlling small gars in limit- McCawley of Remington, as far north as Canada, but most ed areas. Entering traps through strength of a load was defined prefer warmer waters in Southern funnel doors from which there is I La Crosse Blackhawk bowhuntersJby Gov. Gaylord Nelson.

1961 pheasant season is history. more amount 0f powder United States. Tales of gars grow-no escape, as many as 20 have used than by the generally inac- jng 20 feet long and trends. one pheasant for every tw-o hunters. it it it -j against an automobile or Indian residents in check work Uke one wMe lhcir ownm ri long enjoyed unrestricted finds that he is an onlooker to it the Because have hunting privileges, the population most of the hunting activity.

In of deer on the Menominee Indian this capacity you see a lot of lands in North Central Wisconsin things. Some vou want to remem- 1 considerably below that of the ber. others you wish that you average range in the state, ac- could forget, cording to a recent study. Some to remember are: A survey showed an average The 14-year-old carefully break- winter deer density of about 3.7 ing his shotgun and removing the tree i ji As smokeless powders where the charge would go should oped they went far beyond bulk can clear Like diLharge'P 80 60 8 black pow- an area 0f jts normal fish popula- known per square mile, is the lowest deer population in any extensive forested shells before approaching to join his dad and I in conversation. The hunter who unloaded his area in according to gun and safely placed it through were called 3 dram or 4 dram tains and the brackish inlets near Gars serve much the same the Gulf of Mexico.

function in fresh water as sharks it it do in the sea. They are not finicky devel- full-grown gar has no natural eaters and often are scavengers. sharks, gars have been to attack people. One bit Thorp is tho mpmnrv der- Shooters had a good idea of tion Their voracious habits devel- the leg of a young girl as she of Ibow heavy a 3 dram load was, so 0p an earjy age a gar only waded in the edge of Lake Pont- lanrk aith JL rfancrlina became customary to load tw0 inches long was have chartrain in Louisiana. Hearing ttjSrfS yokeless powder to give ballis- dined on 16 her cries, the brother ran TWIfthe 5 Th' is a fish- but har aid and Sar kiLl black powder load being duplicate js eaten on occasion.

When away. Its estimated ed. Thus, the smokeless powder srnoked and barbecued over a pit feet. load was designated as an 1 load. inter-! a state deer research report.

it it it A poll of bear hunters licensed during a recent gun hunting season for bear shows that nearly half of the bear killed were shot In their dens or coming out of their dens. Of those shot about two-thirds were taken at 50 yards or less, with the longest kill reported at 300 yards. One shot was required in 60 per cent of the kills, while two shots accounted for 20 per cent of the kills. it it it Spring shocker collections of muskellunge and northern pike yearlings through three-year-olds have shown that the young fish make virtually no growth during the winter period of minimum forage and cold water temperatures. the fence before crossing.

The man whose dog retrieved a cripple shot by another hunter. The bird was promptly returned to its rightful owner. IV Most encouraging was the large number of youngsters hunting with dads, getting instructions from them on safe hunting procedures. There was the hen pheasant flushed by a dog that sailed over at least IO hunters with not a shot being fired at her. Then of course, there are the memories from the debit side of the ledger.

There are still a few hunters who handle their firearms with complete disregard of the safety of themselves and their hunting companions. There are still a number of loaded guns leaned insecurely and papers where hunters had consumed lunches and left with no thought of cleaning up their mess. it it it BOAT WINTER STORAGE, REPAIR AT HOLIDAY SHOP designation is an mi i esting carrv over from the early Tt arca.s'8ndaj's of the shotgun and, of blasted ol a post by a trigger bears lltlle relation the original loads." say, Mc Cawley, Holiday Shop. 3rd and Division Streets, has complete is a convenient shorthand and extensive facilities for winter storage, repair, refinishing, and is useful as long as the back- and re-styling of boats in the runabout class, ground and limitation of the ex-! Service includes repair and refinishing of fiberglass and pression are needed by other hunters was thus; destroyed. The look of despair on the face of a hunter as he watched his overweight, out-of-condition dog die of overexertion in the heat of Saturday.

Then there were the looks of dismay, consternation, and defiance on the faces of four young hunters when a check of their trunk showed an overlimit of birds. Yes, one sees many things. All will be remembered, but 21 Whooping Cranes On Aransas Refuge WASHINGTON (AP)- I wood boats. Epoxy marine finishes are used exclusively. Epoxies have proved to be the toughest, strongest, most durable (boat finishes yet developed.

Holiday Shop carries epoxies in a (wide range of colors. Holiday Shop also carries in stock marine screws, mahogany lumber and plywood, boat moldings, windshields, and other accessories. All items are on sale for those who have space and do their own work during the winter months. Fiberglass cloth, matting, and resin is available for those one whooping cranes from Canada have arrived at the Aransas for such materials. tional Wildlife Refuge on the Tex- Excellent winter storage facilities for boats are available to some as Gulf Coast, the Interior boat owner.

Large areas in the former Peerless Brewery would sooner be forgotten. The partment announced Wednesday. I Budding have been converted to winter storage of boats. Ex- redeeming fact of all this is that The cranes. 19 adults and caPablc Personnel bandlc a11 c0nsiderable the good things greatly outnum- young birds, were sighted from The boat owner who is desirous of winter storing his boat ber the bad, and you realize that observation posts at strategic and making arrangements to schedule repairs or refinish work points on the refuge, where theyjmay call 4-7167 for full details and estimates, spend the winter.

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