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California Invaders. The marshes around Klamath Falls, on the east slope of the Cascades, are a duck hunter's heaven. The two hunters last week, like other local citizens, want to keep it that way. But the fame of Klamath Falls has spread. Last week, hunters from as far away as Chicago swarmed into town. The natives were particularly scornful of what they call "California hunters,"* who swarm across the border, led by a Hollywood contingent in fancy hunting togs. Among movieland duck hunters: Clark Gable and Andy Devine...
This fall the North American duck population, which has gone down steadily for three years, is down to about 110 million.† In alarm, some states imposed a midseason holiday on hunting (in Oregon, the first half of the season ended last week). The U.S. Fish & Wild Life Service cut the daily limit of ducks per hunter from ten to seven-and now to four. But at some U.S. duck-hunting spots last week, there were not four ducks to be seen, much less shot...
Four Flyways. One of the warmest Indian summers in Canada's history had kept the ducks at the sloughs and potholes of Alberta, Manitoba and Saskatchewan, where they breed and spend the summer. It takes a freeze to chase them south. Last week, a few weeks behind schedule, the mallards, redheads and green-winged teal began to go. They spread out over four major routes. The smallest contingent, about 15%, usually heads down the Atlantic flyway bound for Chesapeake Bay and the Carolina swamps, and get shot at by the smallest percentage of hunters (only 14%). About 25% take...
...California, with 131,009 duck hunters, leads all other states, followed by Minnesota (130,757) and Texas (115,008). † Estimated by a sportsmen's group, Ducks Un limited, after studying post-nesting season reports from farmers, trappers and sportsmen in Canada's great duck-breeding area...
...chairman, Senator J. Howard McGrath, the New-Dealish Rhode Islander who had been Harry Truman's personal choice to run his campaign (TIME, Oct. 6). McGrath had no sooner taken over the chair from ailing Bob Hannegan than he had a chance to demonstrate his ability to duck. The committeemen had prepared a resolution condemning almost in toto the work of the 80th Congress. McGrath spiked the resolution before it came to a vote. He remembered that many a Democrat had voted for Republican-sponsored measures, among them the Taft-Hartley labor law. He reminded his fellow Democrats that...