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Show Hospital Funds Are lipped By Sale of Badges Sale of special badges 'for the pheasant hunt have raised the hospital funds by $3,000 in a rough check Monday, With more badges to be sold this weekend for the second hunt. The badges are good for the season so that those who now have one "don't have to buy another. The badges were distributed well over the entire west Millard area so that they could be bought with a, minimum of effort. A road station sta-tion was set up in the eaet end of town Saturday morning and they sold almost $1500 worth at $2.00 each. Badges may be bought for this weekend at the same places as before, which is about any place you go. Out of town hunters bought them willingly and were pleased with the large area in which they had to hunt. They found plenty of birds the opening day and most everyone had their limit. Those who didn't blamed themselves for missing so many. Posting, other than by the Farm Bureau, was the lowest in many years, which gave the hunters hundreds of acres upon up-on which to hunt. Ninety-nine per cent of the hunters were pleased with the plan, the cause it was for and the results o'f! the hunt. There was opposition locally to the plan in some places, but in most cases it went over well. There have been no unsportman-like unsportman-like incidents reported to us this year as there were last year when so many cases were brought to our attention of, in most cases, plain hoodlum actions. Only one person was shot this year, as compared com-pared to a busy day at the Delta hospital last year, with the wholesale whole-sale shooting of hunters. So, the hunting actions of the sportsmen were far better than last year. It may be the smaller number of hunters, and it may be that the hunters appreciated the fact that so much land was given over to their pleasure at hunting time. The season opens again Saturday Satur-day at noon and closes again next Sunday night. There is some action ac-tion in the northern part of the state to close the season, but it is not expected that this will be done. Use your old badge next weekend, week-end, or if you don't have one, go buy one. |