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J* r-TT WEEKLY BULLETIN rrr* -
S.C.Game f^fish Association
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!JiUn\iscd foe Ihe benefit oiJlu.
DON'T SHOOT THE8E DUCKS!
Wlldfowlers who get their best
thrills from hunting redheads and
canvasbacks need not lose heart yet.
These diving ducks have doinuscil
alarmingly in the past few yearn, but
tie re ar?- still enough birda left to
replenish the species if tin-y have
M?to'|Uate ploOcilon For the present
ad r''l bate protection mean* complete
protect ion
Hunt'18 who expect future sport
are urged to cooperate in tin- enforcement
of this year's closed season on
tiieHe birds "Don't shoot until you
know what you're shooting at" should
be every sportsman's first rule. No
law-abiding sportsman who puts this
rule Into practice need worry about
his depleting the breeding stock of
canvasbacks and redheads.
Tho law excuses no one for ignor- |
ance, and even though a hunter may 1
himself reel satisfied with knowing
that a duck Is a duck, it behooves j
him to distinguish the specially pro-:
tected species, both for the sake of
conserving the threatened birds and
of staying out of court.
Hunters exercising due cure will,1
as a matter of fact, have little trouble '
in identifying their (links. The species'
of duck that are not to be shot are i
the wood duck, or summer duck, ruddy
duck, caiivashack, redhead and
hufTlchend.
"The South Carolina law, in ac-'
cordunce with federal regulations,
states that no duck may be legally
shot between the hours of 7 a. in.
and 4 p. in.," according to A. A. Rich- j
ardson, chief game warden, "neither
may any ducks be taken over live
decoys, jilts, or halt.
"The aggregate bag limit is ten
ducks of all khids. it is also illegal
for any hunter to have in his possession
more than ten ducks," declared
Mr. Richardson.
To aid sportsmen, Ira N. Gabrielson,
biological Survey Chief, described
the outstanding characteristics of
the canvasback and redhead: "If
the head is red. don't Bhoot," is one
good motto, he said, but often colors
are hard to distinguish in the open,
and tho hunter must therefore rely
largely on pattern and outline for
his identifications.
"The male canvasback is easy to
I
identify even at a Jong distance by |
jih white buck, and botii males and
females may be told by their long
sloping bills. Canvusbacks don't luive j
foreheads, the bill continuing the tap- |
cling lines of the head. The long 1
head, bill, and nock give cunvasbacks i
a 'front-heavy' appearance, making
ilmni look as though their wings were'
set too far back
' Redheads, Jike caiivusbacks, are j
fast living ducks, and at even n la- ;
I
t i \e| \ snort distance present an up-j
parent ly uniform gray color. They
arc chunky ducks, and to some extent
their round heads and high foreheads
will assist in identification. The gray
wing stripe of the redhead is one of
the best Meld characters, as the only!
other duck having a gray wing stripe
is the ring necked duck, and it has
a black head." u
"Summing up the "Don't Shoot"
points, (JahriHson said: "Ix)ok hard
at any fast-flying ducks?they probably
are deep-water species. If they
show gray wing stripes, a general |
uniform gray color, or long tapering
heads, slip the safety back into plate."
Closing the season on redheads and!
can v a shucks, is part of a nation-wide
program lor waterfowl eonservatu n. i
Two things are needed in tiiis pro-1
gram matshes where the ducks can
breed, rest, and iind wintering
grounds; and breeding stocks to pop-]
ulate these marshes. Cape Itomuinc, |
i Hull Island and Savannah River, refuges
in tills state, are examples of
' tiiis work. Marshes are being pro- |
vided in the Survey's, refuge work, |
and hunting regulations are* made to
preserve tin? breeding stocks for future
years. In phrasing regulations,
the Survey follows the principle that
only the surplus of birds can be taken
each year, and when there is no surplus,
no birds can be taken without
endangering the species. Tiiis year
it was found that cauvasbacks and
redheads were so scarce tliut further
shooting would jeopardize an otherwise
favorable chance to restore these
birds to something approaching their
! former numbers. Hence, the closed
season on these ducks.
States included in the southern
zone, where the season is November
26 to December 2."), Inclusive, are:
Virginia, North Carolina, South Carolina,
Georgia and Florida.
PISGAH NEWS NOTE8
Pisgah, Nov. 25?Mrs. C. L. Haker
and children, Carl, Jr., and Hetty, of
Hembert, spent Thursday and Friday
of last week with her sister, Mrs.
Leon Stuckey.
Mr. and Mrs. Hoy Haker spent Saturday
night ami Sunday with Mr. and
Mrs. J. T. Watson.
Miss Carrie Mitchell, of Clinton,
Mrs. ltoss Dent, of Columbia, and C.
S. .lames, of Hembert. spent Sunday
w;th Miss Kilrn Jnmrs and her broth
r, Willie.
Mr. and Mrs. H. C. M- Lood, of Hembert.
spi nt Sunday with Mr. and Mrs.:
W F. Haker.
Mr. and Mrs. Kendall, of SpringHill.
visited Mr ancL Mrs. H. C. Hoss
"Sunday
Mr and Mrs ,| l McLeod. of Hornb
it. spent Sunday with Mr. and Mrs.,
.1 T 1 i-ints
Mrs. J. J. lluttleld. ot Saint- r. is
\t-itinc h- r daughter, Mrs. W. F. Hak
r.
'1 he fi lends of K. A Hradloy are
sorry to 1- arn that he is unite sii k
with pneumonia in the Tourney Hospital
in Sumter. I
The Associated Press business index
of last week, indicated that in- j
dustrial activity has climbed to the.
1929 level and past the h-sH ef 1920,
the index indicating 92. as eoinpared
with 83 4 for the same period of 1935. j
The remains of the late King Constantine
of Greece, his wife. Queen ;
Sophia, and his mother, Queen Olga,
have been given final burial In Athens.
They died in Italy while In exllo
there in the days of the Greek repub-:
11c.
An explosion in a chemical factory
at Merano, Italy, near the Austrian
border, killed live or more persons
and injured others.
James A Farley, sojourning in Ireland,
called on President Kamon de
Vnlera of the Irish Free State, at i
Dublin.
?irirT"MUi^7',g:,r:-.i?ii'j -um^ji w i g m | J ? " --?
| 'FRISCO BRIDGE
Cost Huge Fortune and Many Lives
In Construction.
Swarms of *ea gulls used to follow
the ferry boats which piled the. hay
at Han Francisco. ,Last week, howover,
they wheeled overhead tnore
I aimlessly a a the customary transit of
their (lights v.uh forever Interrupted
hy towers of steel which man liatl
flung across the hay i? speed his own
transit.
i in the White House a button wua
pressed by President Roosevelt. On
the West ('oast green lamps were lit
at either end of eight and a quarter
[ miles of connected steel. The Trans
hay Bridge, built at a cost of $77,200,U00,
24 lives and 1,167 injured, was
formally opened. The era of the ferryboats
faded Into the mist of history.
A new day loomed for the picturesque
harbor of Frisco.
A few miles from this Bay Bridge,
linking Han Francisco and Oakland,
another span across the Golden Guto^
itself Is Hearing completion and with
its opening next year, Frisco'* relative
isolatioif will be ended.
Records toppled with complo^lon of I
the Buy Bridge. It spans the,longest
stretch of open water of any bridge?
four and a half miles. It Is the "cost-j
llest bridge In the world," Its huh-j
pension towers rise 619 feet out of
the water and go to a maximum depth i
below water of 235 feet.. At Yerba j
Buefia, traffic passes through the
world's largest bore tunnel, oneeighth
of a mile long. Cables urel
made of 70,*00 miles of wire of pencil
thickness. Hundreds of mercury va-j
por lights make automobile head- j
light unnecessary.
Into the building of the bridge went
152,000 tons of steel and 1,000,000
cubic yards of concrete. With these
materials, said engineers, 35 duplicates
of the Ia)h Angeles City llall
could be built.?The Pathfinder.
WE NEVER DOUBTED IT
For the past year or two the most
of the editorial columns of The Charleston
News and Courier have -been
devoted to the New Deal and Its activities
-largely In a critical vein.
Doubtlessly many people who read
that interesting journal have become
so accustomed to editorials direct'd
toward this one subject they have
utile to the conclusion that had the
New Deal been eliminated by defeat
in the November election The News
' and Courier would have had to abandon
its editorial page, but we are ted
! one of them.
' We know Dr. Ball is a versatile
writer, and that when it became liec[
essary he would write interestingly
of other subjects. And Monday's pa- |
per bears out our confidence in him,
for out of three columns of editorial
matter, only about four inches was j
4?voted to the doctor's favorite subject.?Lexington
Dispatch-News.
Pet Monk Goes
On Liquor Raid
Darlington, Nov. 20.?Sheriff J. H.
Coker. of Darlington, Is the owner of
a two year old monkey named "Archbald"
which was presented to him by
a member of the carnival which spent
last week here with the Darlington
county fair.
The monkey accompanied Sheriff
Coker on a raid on Tuesday when
; oflicers in this county seized two
large stills in this section. While
[ the officers raided the stills "Archli
bald" is said to have made himself
at home in an automobile.
The captain, t Ho stewardess and
live seamen were drowned in Georgia
bay, Canada, when the 100-foot motor
ship Hibou, heeled and sank suddenly.
s Attention!
members of 6
1936
Christmas Club /
ON FRIDAY, DECEMBER 4, (NEXT WEEK) WE WILL, MAIL .
CHECKS TO THE MEMBERS OF OUR 1936 CHRISTMAS CLUB FOR A I
TIIEIR BALANCES AS SHOWN ON OUR BOOKS, AND IT IS WITH
GREAT SATISFACTION THAT WE CAN REPORT THE MEMBERSHIP
OF THIS YEAR'S CLUB SLIGHTLY MORE THAN ONE HUNDRED
PER CfeNT GREATER THAN THE CLUB OF 1935?THEREBY I
DEMONSTRATING THE POPULARITY OF .THIS METHOD OF
SAVING. . . Si
ON THE SAME DATE AS MENTIONED ABOVE WE WILL i i
OPEN OUR BOOKS FOR MEMBERSHIP IN THE 1937 CHRISTMAS
CLUB, AND WE WILL BE MOST APPRECIATIVE OF SUCH PATRONAGE
AS OUR FRIENDS, BOTH WHITE AND COLORED, MAY
SEE FIT TO FAVOR US WITH. * I
t The Commercial Bank of Camden I
MEMBER OF FEDERAL DEPOSIT INSURANCE CORPORATION j
g [?<" o? 0 11 W ' - s I
Negro Swindler
Working Old Game
A neero swindler giving the name
of Kenon Dawkins was caught workj
ing (lie old pocketbook game hero
, Friday but it was not until Monday
! that he confessed to the deed. Dave
Greer, a negro who lives near the
Cunningham peach orchard was the
victim but Chief Montgomery returned
to this colored man the $20 out
I of which he was fleeced. Two other
! negroes who were with Dawkins were
not caught.
A negro accosted Greer near the
I post office and started a conversation.
Presently the strange negro
| observed another negro opening up
| a pocketbook.
i "Did you see him find that pocketbook,"
the Btrange negro remarked.
Greer said he saw the man pick
up .the pocketbook and the three
strange negroes went into a huddle
with Greer concerning the find. In
the pocketbook was a few real bills
surrounding worthless paper and the
strange negroes informed Greer that
there was $600 in the pocketbook.
Something was said about inserting
an advertisement in the paper about
the find and this remark caught
Greer's fancy for the strangers seemed
to be honest about the matter.
One of the strangers remarked that
the honest thing to do would be to
advertise the found pocketbook but
another suggested that since it was
dropped by a white man that they
ought to keep it.
The three strangers and Greer
went over to the Gregory mule stable
to talk the thing over. It was
decided that the $600 was hot money
so that it could not bo spent for
some time. For that reason those
besides the finder of the money were
asked to put up $100 as evidence of
good faith so that they could share
in the division of the money. Dawkins
at this point readily turned over $100
to the man who had the pocketbook
and Greer was asked to put up a
like amount. $20 was all that he had
on his person but he was so intent
ou sharing a part of the purse that
lie said he would endeavor to borrow
the necessary $80 to make up the deficiency.
Greer went to the Beckham
Brothers Grocery and tried to borrow
the money from Jim Beckham. When
Mr. Beckham found out what the
negro wanted the money for he notified
the police. When the officers
made a search for the strange negroes
but one of them could be found
and he was locked in the city jail.
Greer refused to testify against Dawkins
so that the only charge the officials
had against the strange negro
was vagrancy. However, Monday afternoon
he admitted his part in the
conspiracy after the officials agreed
to let him off with a $100 fine and
the payment of .the $20 which was
taken from Greer. Dawkins wired
his wife at Fayetteville and the money
was soon ^forthcoming.
After Dawkins paid his fine he admitted
that he had worked the game
before. About two weeka ago the
pocketbook game was worked on a
negro named Allen from the Jones
Cross Roads section. It was said
that $80 was secured from Allen and
that a negro woman was one ot the
central figures In the embezzlement.
Dawklns said that In working the
game he would rather deal with a
smart negro than a dumb one as the
dumb ones asked too many questions
and required too much time. He al?
so said that in most instsnces the
victim was asked if he did not see
the pocketbook picked up wfhen it
was known that the victim |iad his
back toward the scene. Dawkins said
in nine caseB out ot ten the victim
would claim he saw the pocketbook
picked up and this Indicated he was
ripe for picking as he had larceny
in his heart.?Lancaster News.
Lancaster Man Killed
Lancaster, Nov. 20.?News was received
here today of the death of
Cullen Porter, 22, of Lancaster, who
was killed accidentally while installing
a boiler in Houston, Texas.
Porter was the son of Mr. and Mrs.
Oscar Porter of Lancaster and a nephew
of Claude N. Sapp, of Columbia.
He was employed by the Grinnell
Company of Charlotte, N. C.
Bert Acosta and two other American
flyers, have Joined the loyal forces
of Spain in defense of Madrid.
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