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Show Lion Hunter of N. Rim Honored Honor has come to "Uncle" Jim Owens, pioneer Grand Canyon North rim lion hunter and grand old man of the Arizona strip. Word was received re-ceived at national park service headquarters head-quarters from the National Geographic Geo-graphic board in Washington, D. C, that Natchi point on the North rim of the Colorado in Grand Canyon national na-tional park would hereafter be known as Uncle Jim point. The recognition given the old-timer is unusual, as tho National Geographic board generally does not name a landmark in honor of a living person. Uncle Jim, veteran guide, lion hunter and trapper, first settled on the North rim of the Grand Canyon a quarter century ago, when "the place was alive with mountain lions." So many lions made their headquarters headquart-ers in the vicinity of Uncle Jim's new home that he soon forgot his birthplace birth-place on the Texas plains and settled down to the business of exterminating exterminat-ing lions as a government hunter. He first started to notch the stock of his rifle with every lion killed ,but soon ran out of space for notches, when his kills totaled several hundred. At this time Uncle Jim's mark for lion kills exceeds 600 the record for the United States, according to some of Uncle Jim's staunch admirers. The veteran trapper, now better than 70 years old, is as mentally alert as a man of 50. |