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Show Pheasant Hunt Adds Dollars To Hospital Fund The annual pheasant season, opening op-ening at noon Nov. 3, and closing at 5:30 p. m. Tuesday, was a great success socially and financially. financ-ially. Thousands of hunters flocked flock-ed into the area, thousands of pheasants took to the tall brush and thousands of dollars clinked merrily into the hospital building fund. Many hunters came from out of town in addition to the local nim-rods. nim-rods. Hunting was good on the opening op-ening day but grew tougher on the following days as the pheasants pheas-ants grew warier. Wednesday the birds were reappearing to taunt hunters for another year. Most of the farms in west Millard Mil-lard were posted 'for hospital hunting, hunt-ing, with permission to hunt there granted when the hunter wore the : $2 badge. The badges sold like the proverbial hotcakes. The count is not completed at this time, as not all have been checked in. Tuesday night there was a sum of $3394.00 added to the hospital fund from badges sold at the road blockade and several business houses. When the returns are in it is anticipated that well over $4000 will have been added to the building fund. West Millard Hospital Assn. thanks all those who helped in 'the fund raising campaign, the farmers who posted their fields, the persons who helped sell the idea and the badges, and those who bought badges. Their enthusiastic enthus-iastic cooperation is appreciated. |