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Show GOOD WEATHER FOR DUCKS, NOT HUNTERS Also. Deer Stalkers Will Not Do So Well, With Little Snow Still la a zoological trend, Mr. . Alter : predicted . good weather for deer, with the deer teaaon opening Saturday. There is very little anow oa the - mountain to drive . the animal ani-mal to lower regions, he said, and dry, hard ground - will make it difficult for hunters ' to track them. . Prediction for . Saturday night and Sunday , 1 partly cloudy, with probable tempera tures of from 35 to 40 degrees. Maximum temperature Friday was 65, with a mean of 45 degrees. J. Cecil Alter, federal meteorologist, me-teorologist, answered The Telegram Tele-gram weather observer's query Saturday with a cryptic "Good weather for ducks." The observer was somewhat baffled, since that old bromide has always been used to describe de-scribe exceedingly rainy weather, but Mr. Alter made haste to explain. -With the duck hunting season sea-son opening Sunday, clear, dry weather is exceptionally good for ducks, but not for duck hunters," he said. . "In rainy weather the ducks art forced to fly low, giving the hunters an easy shot, but in .this kind of 'weather the birds have an unlimited celling and hunters will need antiaircraft antiair-craft batteries to reach them." |