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Researchers Errington and Bennett conclude that about one duck is lost for each one bagged. Chief blame they lay on hunters' laziness in looking for wounded birds, their tendency to try overlong shots. They recommend a 50-yard range limit, more use of dogs as retrievers...
...Eastern duck hunters, Assistant Biologist Clarence Cottam of the U. S. Biological Survey this week had good news. On the coast and islands of North Carolina he had found eel grass coming back. A flowering saltwater plant, it normally mats the Atlantic coast's shallow-mud flats from Florida to Greenland. In 1931 it began to disappear. Simultaneously many a brant, Canada goose and black duck began to shrivel and die. Eel grass is the staple winter food of brant, important to other waterfowl...
Just off the coastal juncture of Virginia and Maryland lies small, picturesque Chincoteague Island. Sportsmen know it as a good place to go for fishing and duck-shooting. And once a year, during its Volunteer Firemen's Carnival, Chincoteague stages the East's only wild horse roundup. Last week came this "Pony Penning...
...Throttlebottom) lost control of his outboard motorboat, Embobora II, when its tiller inexplicably came loose in his hand. Down upon him bore a dory. There was a smash-bang amidships and the next thing Alexander Throttlebottom knew he was thrashing about beneath his own overturned craft. He tried to duck out on one side only to crack his head on wreckage, see stars. Down he went again, coming up on the other side. Breathless, and his foot bruised, Alexander Throttlebottom was finally hauled into the dory after the most distressing experience since he was mis taken for a waiter...
...York to be Assistant Secretary of the Treasury; Herbert Jackson Drane of Florida to be a Federal power Commissioner; Conway P. Coe of Maryland to be Commissioner of Patents; Fred W. Johnson of Wyoming to be Commissioner of the General Land Office. Ewin Lamar Davis, Tennessee "lame duck," brother of Ambassador-at-Large Norman Davis, got a minor job as trade commissioner...