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Show 10 BOX ELDER JOURNAL, Brigham City, Utah Thursday, October 3, 1974 Theres a brisk business That chill nip in the air in early morning, the browning marsh grass in swamps and the shotgun shell ads in all the papers remind me its duck hunting time again. And lest I forget my manners while perching my wet behind on a muskrat hillock, let me review F & Gs Code of Ethics for Duck Hunand Goose harriers. ters, Rule one Always choose your hunting spot well in advance, preparing the site with handcrafted tule blind, hidden boat dock and When leaving early Saturday morning for the hunt, take along ample dosages of nitroglycerine tablets, blood pressure potions and other medicines for instant intake when you discover your blind has been taken over by a dozen other hunters, strangers to you. Coot-chase- Duck opener kicks off on Saturday y. readying for the annual duck shoot that opens Saturday at noon. And Division from reports from of Wildlife Resources personnel, the opener could be a humdinger. Plenty of waterfowl are loitering around the countys marshes and unless a major storm drops by before Saturday, hunters should pop plenty of primers this weekend. Reports show that 53,000 ducks are resting at Locomotive Springs, some 19,000 at Public mallards, gadwalls and shovelers pretty fair in the past, while the majority hit one of the open public spots for some fast shooting. High Water Personnel of the DWR say duck bonus in the limit of pinLake have ruined about 10,000 tails. The regular limit is five acres of prime marsh and ducks birds, only one of which can be a have crowded into available canvasback. DWR personnel said redheads water all along the Wasatch are expected to make up a large Front. Hunters using the Bear River portion of the bag limit, also. refuge are reminded that steel Hunters are asked to help the DWR with a lead poisoning shot is required on even numbered days and shells can be study by bringing bagged purchased at the refuge for redheads to division offices or waterfowl $4.75 a box. management area Teal, gadwalls and shovelers superintendents who will take seem to make up a large gizzards and wings for analysis. Hunters may take only two majority of most opening bag limits, but exceptionally large redheads a day. The goose season will delay numbers of pintails are increasing chances for a big its opening until Oct. 12, but duck" limit this year. whistling swan will be legal Hunters can also have a two- - Saturday for permit holders. high waters from the Great Salt . Kickoff is 7:30 p.m. Bees, Bears meet in traditional Rule two Always begin shooting 20 to 30 minutes before noon, but just after your buddy so the game wardens will have trouble picking you out as a ringleader. Always be willing to sign a complaint for early shooting against some innocent sucker who waits until noon to load his blunderbuss. , Shooting Grounds, another 8,000 at Salt Creek and about 100,000 around Willard Bay. Some 200,000 are reportedly trading back and forth at the Bear River Migratory Bird refuge. Wheres the best to go? Got a favorite spot? Any place looks as good as another this year. Some hunters setting up decoys on Malad and Bear Rivers have found shooting fof rs por-tipott- j in stamps, hip boots and shotgun shells this week with Box Elder county hunters duck Rule three Always wade through someone elses decoys when retrieving downed ducks. Disregard the violent gestures and language. Rule four Never fail to stand up and sky bust any flock of mallards that appear will get cozy with your neighbors spread of decoys. After all, anybody who can set up a spread of deeks like that probably could shoot ducks in his backyard. Rule five Squawk unmercifully on your dime store duck call until some sympathetic gadwalls drop a truss off as they wing by at 30,000 feet. Rule six Always anchor your boat close enough to a good decoy spread so as to take advantage of the decoying birds, but not close enough to look like youre mooching off somebody else. Rule seven Refine your mud walking technique to include stomping teal and shovelers into the slime without looking like youre really getting rid of an overlimit of little ducks. Dont worry about finding downed ducks, plenty more are flying around . . . after all its opening day, isnt it? Rule eight Dont plug your gun until you get close to wardens checking for such nonsense. Five and six shots into a flock of ducks is always more productive than a paltry three. Rule nine Keep your transister radio turned up loud enough that the ducks can spot your location well in advance and everybody on the o State game marsh can hear the (Aggies get a bye this week). Rule ten Keep a log of potential duck hunting partners. After the opener, youll need some new buddies to take along. BYU-Colorad- 723-347- 1 grid go on Friday One of Utahs oldest high school rivalries will be resumed Friday night when Bear River invades Ferguson field for a football duel with Box Elders Bees. Kickoff for the fracas will be 7:30 p.m. And, as the saying goes, for this one you can toss out the record books. The Bears are winless in three Region One outings while in league and the Bees stand overall, which means both clubs have taken their lumps, nevertheless, a great measure of success for this or any season hinges on the outcome of this traditional tangle. Is Cautious and theyve improved im- mensely the last three weeks. I know coach Pete was disappointed in their scoring in the Bonneville game but we felt they played very well. got a fine quarWade Hall and Tony Rawlins runs Theyve terback in tailback exceptionally said well, Petersen. He said the Bees are starting to jell We know we have to stop their running attack. They have good deception off the power I, he added. outgained them offensively 10 or 11 yards. Thats the first time weve done that. Our pass defense did a pretty fair job and were prodding our secondary to come up with the interceptions, he added. In other action around Region One this week, Roy visits Bonneville for their traditional skirmish, while Logan and Sky View tangle in another intense rivalry at Utah State universitys stadium at 1:30 p.m. Weber High hosted Orem in a e affair Wednesday afternoon. Here are Region One standings: Gordon in viewing the game. He sizes the Bear club as having a good team speed, and on the best linemen around in the form of Jeff Lish. Bear River has a good he said in football team, d summary. While the Bruins appear to be out of contention for a state playoff berth from Region One teams (first and second-plac- e go), Box Elder still has a shot at it. And the way Coach Pete has it figured, the runner-uspot is up for grabs (Bonneville being conceded the region title). p Field Even He sees the field as pretty well even and from week to week, the results will be based on who ever wants to win the most. His own charges, still spirited despite last weeks lopsided loss, think they can win. The Bees are running a little long on injuries. Guard Ron suffered pulled ligaments in practice last week and is doubtful. Defensive end Alan Asay is mending this week from a severe ankle sprain and is a question mark. down his roster, his eye at the name of Jeff Lish, a senior coHell be very captain. marginal this week. He played some against Sky View but he was far from his old self with a broken arm. David Wheatley, who gained 72 yards against Sky View, received a shoulder injury and is doubtful to play. Looking Petersen cast Roy After the young robin hatches from the greenish-blu- e egg, he averages eating 14 feet of earth worms per day. Olympic ace Kevin Whitaker The cricket frog holds a kind of worlds record for the standing broad jump-4- 0 times 1 hard-runnin- 150-pou- 4. 2-- 0-- 3. 5-- m Fisher, 42; Glen Palmer, 47; Jerry Jensen, 51, and Larry Rich, 54. Next up for Box Elder is an Oct. 7 date at Roy. The badgers ferocity led to the custom of badger baiting, popular in Great Britain during the first half of the nineteenth 1850. This involved sinking a small barrel as a retreat for one badger in a pit in which several dogs were released. The dogs were supposed to pull or draw the badger from its haven. Grand view Burnet badger once whipped eleven dogs, including a male, white pit bulldog, which outweighed the badger by five pounds. After each fight the badger went to the man who owned it and without a whimper let its wounds be daubed with iodine. When mule deer retire for the day, they prefer, if possible, to be on a shady, well protected ridge where they can have an elevated view of the terrain and receive the rising thermals which carry the odor of any predators up both slopes. raiMi nunr m Place Stock D, 1973: International Falls: Ironwood: Canadian Power Toboggan Champ., Beausejour: Stock D, 1974: Kawartha Cup International: (Sat) IHiS BULL MOOSE was killed illegally during the elk hunt last Saturday and left to rot. Conservation officers were able to salvage only the hindquarters after a hunter reported the kill on Sunday. (Sun) Hodag Sprints, Rhinelander: World's Champ., Eagle River: Paul Bunyan Open, Bangor: LeMans International Pro Am, Milwaukee: New York State Champ., Boonville: Eastern U. S. Snowmobile Champ., Syracuse: Canadian Power Toboggan Champ., Beausejour: USSA World Series, Eagle River: Kawartha World Series, Peterborough: (Sat) (Sun) SDSki-Doo- . ACArctic-Ca- t Fricke said the Blacksmith canyon station Fork-Loga- n checked through the per cent were spike bulls and few trophy size were seen. first weekend. 85 About bulls 90 Did Better We moose killed on elk opener Bull bull moose was illegally killed the opening day of the elk hunt in Rich county last week and Division of Wildlife Resources officers were able to salvage only the hind quarters. DWR officer John Fricke said two cow elk were also killed the first weekend, one near Hardware ranch. The moose, one of the largest in a herd the DWR has been watching for some time, was shot in the back in Cottonwood A 1,000-poun- d canyon in the Cache forest. One of the cows was salvageble, said Fricke. The moose are getting to the point theyre ready to take off the something like this happens. This wont make the moose permit hunters happy who didnt get their animals in the area this yearfall, said Fricke. Overall, the elk hunt appears better than expected. Over 100 animals were checked through northern Utah checking stations the first weekend. didnt think hunters would do that good because of the dry weather. I talked to well over 100 hunters in the field and all said they saw elk, either just cows or a bull and cows. The reduced number of hunters this year probably helped the hunt. I rode over quite a bit of the country in the Cache unit and saw few hunters in large areas of it, he added. Most elk were shot in the Boulder Mountain, Logan Peak and Twin Creeks areas, he said. Most elk hunts have been "pretty clean but a very few hunters have either mistaken their targets or maliciously shot illegal animals this year. Those kind of things cut down on everybodys success. I wonder how long the hunters will put up with this type of action," Fricke said. He warned hunters going into the field this weekend to be certain to leave some proof of sex attached to the carcass. We issued quite a few citations for not leaving evidence of sex on the animal. Sno-Twist- 6'V 10".9" 657 8'W9S 12'V1225 er. You ride it to win. B& CONCRETE PIPE, IRRIGATION and DRAINAGE. ALL PRICES ARE PLANT PICK-U- ALL P SALT LAKE: 333 So. Redwood Road North Salt Lake, Ph. OGDEN: 801 West 12th St., Ph. LOGAN: South Highway 91, Ph. PROVO: Ph. 373-860- 0 (no toll 532-111- 399-117- 1 752-631- 0 1 charge) SIZES II SALES 473 South 4th West 723-247- 2 OTHER SIZES 4 TO 24" V g tailback who gained 101 was named yards player of the week in Box - Elders Region One football game with Bonneville last Friday, senior Kevin Whitaker, Hes son of Mr. and Mrs. Lee Whitaker, 324 West Third South, Brigham City. The 8 gridder has come on strong of late to become an effective force in the Bees offense. Whitaker plans to wrestle after the grid campaign is concluded. He, like other weekly award winners, will receive an engraved plaque from the sponsoring Box Elder News and Journal. A victory of the fall season in Region One this week, downing Bear River on the Brigham City Municipal course, The Bees now stand 1 in league standings, while the Bears fell to Heres how the individual scoring went: For Box Elder, it was Mike Jones and Noel Stibor with a pair of 40s ; Wes Jones carded a 41, and Mike Stack was low man with a 39. Val Thurston also had a 41 for the Bees but it was not counted in the scoring. The Bears rounds went like this Dan four-man-tea- yards 'i Elder High golfers captured their second 160-19- 101 Tailback picked for player award its own length. Bees topple Bears in Region One golf Box gains . . . 0 0 Logon Badger baiting A Long worm Box Eldar Sky Viaw Boor Rivor He said Rick Adams and Brad Cutler, two quarterbacks with different styles, are fighting for the starting spot. He is still looking at junior linebackers Clark and Brian Dwight Petersen but that might change this week. I feel our defense did a good job against the Bobcats. We century, but banned about The third hole in one at Brigham City Municipal golf course was recorded last week when J. Earl Johnston sank a tee shot off of number two. Johnston of Brigham City on the 175 yard used a hole. ' He was golfing with Dean Clark. W 3 2 2 Bonncvilli SPORTS Brigham man records ace non-leagu- Wabar Hive mentor Peterson is cautious Thompson Bear River mentor Donald is casting a wary eye at the Bees, who he says are a vastly improved ball club. Theyre a real good team Petersen BOX ELDER ACTION or 723-619- 4 |