Show Times Tames Stoffer Tells Harrowing Tale f i A demonstration by workers workers work work- ers on the Les Ottinger farm was settled this week with little negotiation By now the workers are happily Installed in installed installed In- In stalled in new quarters and going about their business of making honey The workers are of course bees who make Canyon anyon- anyon lands Honey lIoney on Les Ottinger's Ottinger's Ottinger's Ottin Ottin- gers ger's honey bee farm fann in west Moab The busy bees recently recent recent- ly produced a new queen and sent the old one house hunting hunt hunt- ing She and her loyal followers fol lowers ended up in a swarm on an apple tree limb where they hastily constructed a anice anice anice nice honeycomb house As keeper of the bees it was Mr Ottinger's Job to transfer the makeshift home to more suitable quarters in ina a hive The interesting procedure of coaxing a swarm of armed armed armed arm ed bees into a new home caught an interested bystanders bystanders by by- standers stander's attention By a strange coincidence he happened hap to be Times Times Independent dent staff member Bud ole Me- Conaughy whose only d de defense de tense lense weapon was a camera By Dy now however he has re recovered re covered enough from a few tew injected bee-injected wounds to tell an interesting tale He lie Ie calls it Lucky Break or How low to Settle a Strike in an Amicable Ami cable Manner olanner Read about it on Page 2 2 43 r r r 1 i icy 1 C CM Ch M h In the shade dude ads of ot the old apple tree Les Lea Ottinger makes final delicate preparations prior to lowering A hive from the tree containing better than ten thousand bees The hard lIard working honey producers created a rare are phenomena lla of nature when they made mado their home In the limbs of the tree The bees showed their utter contempt for the entire project by attacking In force Both Mr Hr Ottinger and some spectators felt the full wrath of bee rage in the form of ot soll solid stings sting's |