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Show TlBy JIM RHODYf-- Electric Seine An expanded version of an elec-tric seine used on smaller trout streams in the East is paying di-vidends for the Kentucky division of game and fish. The seine used by the Kentucky division was constructed by Leon-ard Joeris, division technician, and is a variation of one described by John T. Funk of the Missouri conservation commission Joeris' seine consists of a two-stra-rubber- coale- cable of No. 12 wire, 150 feet long. The first 50 feet of the cable form a lead wire from the generator. A probe polo is securely attached to the cable at either end of the remaining 100 feet. These probe poles are 7 feet Ions and tipped with a strip of co-p- er plate i2l) inches lung and s,i ft, A, ,'',.. LMf COM i i Shown In the top drawing Ih the generator used in powering the electric seine, and, below, details of the seine's construc-tion. inches wide) folded over the lower end. The seine between the poles is held up by 14 floats made from h sections of 2x4-inc- lumber. Twenty-seve- n additional electrodes are spaced at 3Mi-fo- intervals be-tween the two probes. The power plant, or generator. Is an alternating current type, belt-drive- n, and develops 6' horse-power at 2,400 rpm's. This genera-tor is larger and more powerful than most generators in use for electric seines or shockers through-out the United States at the present time. The seine works very well in relatively clear water less than four feet deep. The seine shocks all species of fish equally well, but the large fish seem to be shocked more successfully than the finger-ling- s and fry. If the seine is moved slowly, little danger of killing fish is apparent. All species of fish re-cover rapidly and sustain no damage. This writer saw Joeris and fellow workers of the Kentucky division use the seine in Elkhorn creek, near Frankfort, Ky., and can testi-fy to its effectiveness. However, Joeris, who aparently is a perfec-tionist, says "no attempt has been made ... to evaluate the success of the seine in various types and conditions of water because suf-ficient reliable data has never been collected. dbd Action Packed Continuing and Increasing re-ports of Its effectiveness are proving that Fred Arbogast & Company's famed topwater lure, the "Hula Popper," Is really making fishing history. The impressive voluntary testi-monials from enthusiastic ang-lers demonstrate, as nothing else could, just how deadly the "popper" is in angling for bass. A killer, especially for big bass, the "popper" obeys the slightest wrist command. It can be made to pop, plunk, twitch or jerk at will, or to make plenty of noise and eon-fusi-on the surface. Two North Carolina fishermen, Ed Howell and W. G. Hood, Jr., of Goldsboro, claim that "if bass don't strike it, they 'aint' there." The Hula Popper floats when at rest and the small hula skirt Roes into action, imitating a live bug. It seems to make bass fighting mad. The Arbogast company also makes the "popper" in fly-ro- d size, and it, too, is bringing in thoi bass. HDD Watch It! Wisconsin conservation wardeni are blaming the Chinese for somi undersized trout found in fisher-men's creels. It seems the Chinese, in placing rulers on trout creels, are something less than particular about the accuracy of the rulers. As a result, some of the creel rulers are from three fourths to five-eight- s of an inch short on the seven-inc- h length. The wardens concede that the fishermen bought thest creels in good faith. MA HONEY '"" HOLD5 MAJC nSj! lWI WHILE WITH "DC l?Tm!ccma open S4? ENU'D IN A 5 MAN TCAN 10 HXZ WAV OTP WS HELD AWPCAkV MITCH fXOFF AND PORKY OLIVER VW RE STILL TCD.A'SUCUN DEATH WftLTER JCKN0ON HAD SECOND AAy-OF- VWJ UEClOEO ON AND MIDDLE'CCf F WINNIE j tl MLAKj OF 16 CON-FIRE- D A BIRDIE ON THE FlKST HOLE. HE LOtiT TO 3XVTIVC GAMES IN 1912, 14 IN OLIVCB HOWFVrg...PQgKY HAD AN EAGLE mS 15 N : iwm'dc. wife sloping hills of Morris ew Jersey, more than a residents of a Norse e living in a perfect cmbining quaint, ojd-tjm- s ond folklore with traditionally American b on the Fourth of July ton Thanksgiving day. Telemark keeps mem-rh- e homeland burning 'lithe weekly dances in $ pavilion. As shown yng and old at Tele-:- e the native Rheinland-bttisch- e dances to the the fiddle, dressed in e garb of old Norway, in this setting, Lund does some dual cs she relates tales of ventures to the young-Lcre- d 'round the old fciieel. Young Sylvia Bergdal in colorful Norwegian dress blows the "lur" which is a Scandinavian - type trumpet which was used by the Vikings in time of war and is now used by sheep herders in tha mountains. ' ' " iicLalJ f t ' Elemarkings as they are ;Mirst lived in small huts cobins built from native ls ond with their own labor, "en, the homes have grown and comfort but, like this "que stone and stucco cot- - they have retained the old- - . . . arm. Here Chris Lund recaptures the scene as his wife, in native dress pose at the Habits and customs of the homeland are faithfully carried out (below) m this Jersey 'e9ian setting, and old tales of the old country abound in these afternoon sess.ons in e Bergdal's backyard. -.- noFinm .fidasSMK'JVWIWjtSfiBfJBHB I i U. S. Aloes I Briton Sees Frustration LONDON. A Eriton who re-turned recently from the United States reports that American men were frustrated because they were tied to their wives' apron strings. Writing in the tabloid Dally Mirror, John Walters, who said he had lived in a New York suburb, congratulated English-women on their "contented husbands." Walters said he was "gratified" to find that while the average Englishman sometimes is called upon to dry the dishes, he doesn't have to wash them, too. He also was pleased to see men out for a Sunday stroll, or in pubs with male companions, while their wives stayed home. "In America I have rarely seen this phenomenon," he wrote. "American housewives flock to women's clubs in search of culture and to decide bow the world should be run. And while they ate thus engaged, the hus-bands look after the homo and kids." Walters, who is New York cor-respondent of the Daily Mirror, also found American men too fat, prone to Indigestion, and ap-parently incapable of buying their own clothes. "They are also perpetually tortured about the intentions of Mr. Stalin and about the possi-bility of a big business depres-sion," he said. SPORT LIGHT I Vonder in What Far-O- ff Rings? By GRANTLAND RICE T UisUt.K . w6i r o rj; Jim Corbett't spectr waits oh view? Wbert Jefferies booti and old Fitz swings Or Louis spins his follow through Vi'hert is Jack Pempsey's trashing fist As 1'unney holds thi jot at bay? S:'l looking through th$ fogs and mists W'hert art ghosts of yesterday? The Ezzard Charles Rating Since the melancholy spectacle In Chicago known as the N.B.A. heavyweight championship, various experts and noncombatants have' been busy attempting to rate Ez-zard Charles, the winner. The best rating would seem to place Charles somewhere between the y and the pre-Lou- is period. It is difficult to make any clear cut estimate since he was facing an opponent who refused to fight, the same being Jersey Joe Walcott. Charles is a better boxer than Max Baer, Primo Camera and tJi:m Tr--srauaJocKl . Trite is no better a box-er than Jack Sharkey or Max Schmeling hap-pened to be. He can't punch with Baer, Braddock or Schmeling. That post-Tunne- pre-Lou- is Deriod was a tion doesn t want any more ot Jer-sey Joe Walcott This recent show was one place where the promoters had to work without any working material. The fight mob for years had bern accustomed to fellows like Dempsey, Tunney and Louis who could box and also punch. Tunney was no stick of dyna-mite but ho could cut you up and hurt you. The fight moli had become too accustomed to Joe Louis to start cheering for an Ezzard Charles or a Joe Wal-cott, minus any part of per-sonal appeal. Or even Imper-sonal appeal. Charles was at least willing to fight, while to Walcott the thought of hitting someone or being hit was decidedly abhorrent. Walcott would have been an ideal soldier in the War of the Roses. More About Charles Charles is a serious, earnest young fellow who is a good boxer and who is willing. But he is never overanxious. He is careful. He tried to make a fight of it but his punch-ing was too feathery to make him dangerous. Charles is not much of a puncher, even with a fair shot at some an-tagonist. Here was Walcott in front of him for 15 rounds and yet Wal-cott emerges without a knockdown or a scratch outside of a split upper lip. This isn't the type of fighter who is going to revive the lagging fight game and start the multitude cheering loudly. For all of that Ez-zard Charles is very likely the best heavyweight fighter left In the world today. lie should have no great trouble handling either Wood-cock or Savold. Woodcock never was very much and Savold Is well over the hill. Charles lacks any touch of fire or flame. lie Is merely a pretty good work-man who is involved with in-ferior material. Louis has been through for sev-eral years. His title was worth at least a million dollars to some am-bitious fellow who could learn how to box and punch. The inducement has been the richest prize in sport. The ring game has had at least six years in which to develop Just one fighter, one good fighter. The net result has been Ezzard Charles, who, in baseball parlance, would be rated a .270 hitter. Gene Tunney stopped Tom Heen-e- y and retired in July, 1928. Max Schmeling won from Jack Sharkey on a foul in July, 1930. Grantland Uice sad one for the fight game especially the heavy-weight game. This new era, now rolling in, will be just as sad or possibly even sadder. The winner of the Charles Wood-cock vs. Savold contest won't re-quire much on either side. This is just as well since neither side has much to offer. At the very best, such a meeting should be worth perhaps a $10 top, if you happen to have $10 you don't need. There is no complaint about the N.B.A. calling the Charles-Walco- tt fiasco a championship fight. It was a terrible fight to watch from start to finish. Jer-sey Joe Walcott started at a rather brisk pace but, after the second round, suddenly decided that he was through for the evening. He had collected three pretty fair purses in a row and he had been around 19 years. He had squeezed about all he could out of mediocrity. You can't keep on making lemon-ades out of one lemon. Certainly the heavyweight situa- - Florida Governor Pawns His Own Car To Help Out State TALLAHASSEE, FLA. Gov. Ful-ler Warren, has pawned his 1948 Cadillac sedan for $3,000. Because of Florida's financial plight, Mr. Warren said he was going to postpone drawing his $1,000 a month salary for three months, and signed a note putting up his automobile as security for the money he said would be neces-sary to tide him over. A state legislator, Representa-tive Marcus Frank of Ocala, called the governor's gesture "ham act-ing." He offered to lend the money to Mr. Warren to keep him from starving. The governor replied: "Marcus, my frugal friend, as to 'ham acting,' you should know." He called Mr. Frank a "propagan-dist," and suggested the legislator give his help to the "old people, de-pendent children and blind who will be cut in July because the state does not have funds to pay the money appropriated by the Legis-lature." Florida's legislature adjourned after voting a 24 million dollar budget without sufficient means to finance it. Records Show Fish Rain Down From Sky at Times WASHINGTON. Fish do, 1 0 o, rain down from the sky now and then. Moreover, an article in the maga-zine Science said, they have been known to rain in frying size at breakfast time. A. D. Bajkov of the Oyster lab-oratory at Biloxi, Miss., reported that he personally witnessed a rain of fish at Marksville, La., October 23, 1947. He and his wife were in a restau-rant eating breakfast, Bajkov said, when fish from two to nine inches long began dropping by the hun-dreds on streets, sidewalks and lawns, "mystifying the citizens." Several persons, including a banker and two storekeepers, were pelted by fish "absolutely fresh and fit for human consumption. Bajkov picked up a big jar of large-mout- h bass, goggle-eye- , two kinds of sunfish, several species of minnow and hickory shad. The largest fish in his collection was a bass 9 14 inches long,, he said. A Citizen struck by the fish re-ported they were frozen. Those picked up by Bajkov were merely cold. But it is a matter of record, he said, that frozen fish fell on Essen, Gel many, in 1890. "The largest falling fish on rec-ord," Bajkov said, "was reported from India and weighed over six pounds." Jj By Harold Araett PADDEO THIMBLE I IN CASE YOUR. FMGEf? GETS SORE FROM YOUR THIMBLE . fV 1 WHEN YOU SEW TRY USING V'W,' V A MUCH LARGER TMlAABLE X "' V?4"J I h AMD PAD IT WITH THIN J T I ) FELT. THE FELT CAN BE yLZ K AI ff held in place &y means jOT Mr fi OF RUBBER, CEMENT OR ' J ANY OTHER HOUSEHOLD SSVs eeo spring i I F 1) IF YOU HAVE CHICKENS I rttl? ANt? FEED THEAA BEETS' I "- -y ' j CARROTS, ETC., YOU CAN H .C V-- 'iJ i MAE A DANDY HOLDER l K A X F0(? THE5E VEGETABLES V Jk BY FASTENING- - THE COILS W. OF ANl OLP BEPSPRlNG- - Jv; TO A WALL OR POST. THIS VW WE LPS TO PREVENT WASTE. - .... Firemen Play Pranks To Delight Train Crew CHICAGO. The passengers on the Soo Line's Minneapolis express were bewildered at the sight of a bunch of firemen, fishing from a rowboat on dry land. But the train crew knew it was all about and chuckled in appreciation. Members of the River Forest fire department decided one day a couple of years ago that the train-men looked bored when they passed through the western suburb. The firemen decided to make the train-men's lives more interesting. Now, whenever they think of a good idea, they act out various "scenes," as duck hunting skits and gangland dramas, complete with guns, all designed to give the Soo Line crews something to look for-ward to. |