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P PAGE SIX (Swond Seetlon)" THE WAYNESVILLE MOUNTAINEER Mazelwood ia!B nub SENATORS' HOPE - - By JackJSords "s. 1 ' " "jYl ll I I ifr iAAS4i461oJ PiiJiStlgP uJ; I ir&xd t v V '-k x. iet,M& -me. I . .4 Some Tips From Expert Trout Fishermen Given By GENE WIKE FISH FAIR OR BEWARE Whether it was the whispering pines or the babbling brook that told them is purely a fictional guess, but some how or other the protectors got the word about fish and game violations during the past month. The Division of Game and Inland Fisheries registered two hundred and twenty-six convictions during March to beat the previous record of two hundred during January. They're really beating the bushes these days. Total fines amounted to $1,022.20 while $1,401.34 was expended by the violators for the cost of court. Seventy-six were prosecuted for fishing without license, to lead the list of violations which also in cluded twenty-nine prosecutions for taking undersized fish, eighteen for hunting out of season, sixteen for setting nets, thirteen for vio lating shad laws, and eight for setting hooks illegally. Other j prosecutions listed in respective orders were: fishing out of season, non-resident fishing without li cense, shooting fish, and fishing in restricted waters. One was prose cuted for attempting to take deer with night light. TAKE A TIP FROM SOME SPORTSMEN With the trout seas on opening last Monday and ex tending through August 31. perhaps a word from the wise win mane you a little more adept at trussling the taunt line.. Take the com ment of George Harvey. He's a widely known Pennsylvanian some times acclaimed as the ace trout j fisherman who says the secret of a full creel is the ability to dis tinguish between limestone and freestone streams the principal sources of trout. Trout feed under the limestone run and on top in the freestone waters, according to Harvey. "If it is a limestone stream fish with underwater lures, and if it is a freestone fish with a dry fly on surface lure," he confides. He claims a few small trout can be induced to take a dry fly on a limestone run particularly in the shallow swift waters or riffs. but those same trout could be taken more easily with nymphs or wet flies. Harvey admits high water and muddy water nullify his plan, and further agrees that when there are specialized hatches of insects on limestone streams the dry fly may be the best bet for a short period. However, he contends his advice will stand the test 75 per cent of the time, and hopes you have a lot of luck trying it. Jack Bell, sportsman-writer for the Washington Post, says most trout anglers using wet flies, streamers, and spinners will prob ably do best on opening day. but due to an early spring he thinks the dry fly addicts will have their innings, dry fly fishing usually im proves during May and June. In any case, he cautions, trout fishing calls for slow, quiet fishing and plenty of patience. Raymond Camp, New York Times Rod and Reel Editor, de bunks the robin or the willow leaf as the sign of spring. He says it's trout fishing that heralds in the season. Quite so. perhaps, but what's more important is his con servationist viewpoint on the whole situation. Speaking of planted fish, he says that trout fishing has ceased to be "natural" fishing, for most all of them are hatchery reared and "planted" by state conservation agencies. Some are stocked with fingerlings but many are adult legal sized trout placed in the streams for opening day enthus iasts. Throughout the spring stock ing is carried on periodically, he explains. Many trout fishermen care little for their catch as food and many a fish is returned as soon as it is brought into the net, and he warns that this practice must become more popular in the future if trout fishing is to continue. No one state can provide "limit" catches for all its anglers, on the present income, according to Camp. The healthy sign for the average fly fisherman is that he is not interested in proving his skill to kill but instead in the art of cast ing and presenting his fly. The dry fly fishermen, he concludes, will take a few fish despite all the forces of nature that oppose them, the wet fly anglers will do a little better and the streamer or buck tailed fishermen will find their quarry more interested. At least that's the way he sees it. Softball Season Scheduled To Open May 15th Ten Teams Are Now Listed To Play; Two Games A Night Announcement was made this week by President L. N. Davis and Secretary E. C. Wagenfeld that the softball season would open here May 15th and continue through August 23, playing four nights a week, Monday, Tuesday, Thursday and Friday. The diamond at the high school being the place of play. There are ten teams entered this year, namely, Pet Dairy Products Company, Lions Club. Veterans of Foreign Wars, Dayton Rubber Co., Wellco Shoe Corporation, Una gusta Manufacturing Company, High School. Youth Center and A. C. Lawrence Leather Co., Boosters. Softball was discontinued during the war but is to be revived this year on a similar set-up as before playing ceased. The games are scheduled for 7:15 o'clock with two games an evening. It was announced by Secretary Wagenfeld that a list of players on each team will have to be filed with the league not later than May 1st. Each team will place $7.50 forfeit money with the league, and if no game is forfeited the money will be refunded at the end of the season. Many of the teams have already started practicing for the season, and the others are soliciting play ers for their respective teams. Not all of the details as to ad mission and the schedule were worked out in the meeting Monday night, but at the next meeting these details will be taken car of. The lighting of the field is ex pected to be completed by opening game night, as the lights have been used for football, and are to be changed within the next two weeks. tart Daily Fractoces WoLFrT ' dopes -Co Keep -tAb , i.'vfbsiTio4 io -rite ambricaJ Elementary School Cage Tournament Starts Moil Agricultural World It is estimated that approximately 75 per cent of the world's 2 billion population gets its living In clost association with the soil. China and India, each with a population of about 400 millions, are largely agri cultural nations. Vast areas in Eu rope. Africa and South America are almost completely rural The annual elementary basket ball tournament will get under way Monday at one o'clock at the Waynesville Armory, with the Waynesville High school as spon sor, according to C. E. Wcathcrby, director of athletics. The first game of the tournament will be between the girls of Rock Hill and Maggie. This game will be followed at 1:45 by a game be tween the boys' teams of the same schools. On Tuesday the Central Elemen tary girls will meet the Hazelwood girls at one o'clock, and at 1:45 the boys' teams from Lake Juna luska and East Waynesville will play. On Wednesday at 1:00 o'clock the Central Elementary girls will meet the winners of the Rock Hill Maggie contest, and at 1:45 Hazel wood boys will meet the winners of the Junaluska-East Waynesville CASTING BY THE STARS If you don't get a good catch this season you can blame it on the stars or the condition of the moon. In Williamston, Ira T. Coltrain, a close observer of nature, has pre- . dieted that fish catches this season would be small because he noted very few stars in the heaven on Old Christmas Night Could be, said ' the commercial fishermen operating in the Roanoke from the plant at Jamesville, they've been' running In large numbers but the catches have been unusually small. The next few days will telL , We Have A Complete Line Of The Famous WEATHERILLS PAINT Including A Good Stock Of The Scarce Outside White Paint Guaranteed Satisfaction Also In Stock The Popular TRIMZ Wall Paper A Variety Of Nice Patterns Massie Furniture Co. Phone 33 Many Stars Are Seeking Places On Local Team Several Pre-Schedule Games Planned Before League Season Opens On May Fourth Ten players have reported for practice for places on the Hazel wood Industrial League team, and at least six others are expected to begin daily work-outs soon. The team is one of the eight teams in the W. N. C. Industrial Baseball League, and George A. Bischoff is acting manager. A new and enlarged backstop has been erected 25 feet Ijack of the old one. Considerable work has been put on the field, and it is in good condition. Practice got under way last Thursday, and will continue every day at five and on Saturdays at two o'clock. An invitation is extended all ball players to attend practices and try for a berth on the team, which will play every Saturday. Mr. Bischoff said that several pre-schedule games will likely be played before the league season opens on May 4th. The schedule has not been announced. Among the players attending practices include Bud Blalock, Dea con Woodard, Jack Smith, Sam Lane, Gordon Wyatt, Snooks Dud ley, Glenn Wyatt, Gene Wyatt, Rose Owens and "Bug" Kuyken dall. Former star players expected to report soon include Clyde Fisher, J. C. Burrell, Joe Scruggs and Bob Putnam. Two players who expect to get their military dis charges soon and join the team are Trout man and Oliver Yount. The team manager and team captain will be named in the next lew days. The directors of the team include E. C. Wagenfeld, of A. C. Lawrence Co., chairman; George A. Bischoff, Calls For Players I SPECil GEORGE BISCHOFF, acting manager of the Hazelwood Base ball team, which is a member of the W. N. C. Industrial I.cafiue, is issuing a call for additioiul players to attend daily practices of the team at the high school. of Itoyle & Pilkinglon Co., secretary-treasurer; Whitener Prevost, of Unagusta, Ned Tucker, of Day ton, and II. L. Hendricks, of Wellco Shoe Corporation. game. The finals for the girls will be played at 1:00 o'clock Friday, and at 1:45 the boys' championship game will be played. Trophies will be given to both champion teams. Cold Honey It's both unnecessary and unde sirable to keep full-bodied honey in the Ice box. Cold honey becomes thick and it doesn't spread easily. It Is much better to keep honey at ordinary room temperature. If the jar is tightly covered, the honey will keep for months. Ashevillc Coca-Cola Bottling Co. Regular 39c Overseas Hailing Boxc Now Only 14C BEU(-HUD.S(l ""VJ I NY Values" C 0 M P A ''Home of Better Check Up, Just as your doctor checks your health rep cn vm l inm i l'Q nno a rron f cli,-., . 11 1. .1. iwi 6-ih oiiuuiii Liit'LK your injj iuvnut, iu inane auic yuu are amply Jill I mh il it ioy Wn !tin twiw.i.;, ,,... I :.. it --M"-' "-'".cu 111 mis KM will gladly bring your policies up-to-date i obligation on your part. L ll DAVIS & Rentals Real Estate Insurtnci PHONE 77 Use The Classified Advertises we row To The Veterans My dear boys, I have just read in The Mountaineer of the political principles and purposes of the Hay wood Veterans Association. Being a Haywood man myself and inter ested in all men and all things Haywood, I feel encouraged to write you this letter of encouragement and to make a small contri bution to your campaign fund, although I'm not a voter there, only a tax payer for past 30 years. Now I'm not critical of any of the present office holders of Haywood County. Most of them are my friends, whom I consider honest and efficient. But if I had a vote, I'd prefer to vote for a service man, on the general priciple that they have never had a fair or a square deal and I don't believe they ever will until they organize and get into politics for themselves and the country they love enough to fight for, and die, if necessary in its defense. I do not think we civilians can ever ade quately reward or repay the service men for what they have done for us, or for their in describable hardship and suffering and sacri fices. They risk their lives in battle that we may continue to live in peace and comfort and freedom. They make incalculable finan cial losses while we at home enjoy life as usual, sleep in comfort and prosper on the flesh pots of war. Yes, you service men, all of you, are heroei in my book. I have seen you march away from the things and people you love, to do tin things you hate to fight and kill and de stroy your fellow men. I've seen you win two world wars, which you did not cause or de clare. You have always had to save our Republic in times of grave peril and you will have to continue to do so if it is to be saved in the future. The professional politicians and the flabby muscled, ancient olfice holder won't and can't do it. That's dead certain So why shouldn't the men who have to do the lighting and dying to save their country and civilization in times of war, have a voice and a hand in the destinies of peace and in the determination of government policies which so vitally affect, avoid and create war, No intelligent and patriotic person wil question either your right or your tlutyto take an active part in local, State, and National affairs. You owe to yourselves, children and your fallen buddies to clean oat the termites from your home government ad to cut the cancer from the body PllU Throuirh unitv and organization you. only you, can do it. No other organ izatic has the intelligence, the know how guts to do it. Hoping you every success FRANK SMATHl'KS. and Political Rally Tonight At Saunook School at 8 o'clock Music By Soco Gap Siring Band HAYWOOD VETERAN'S ASSOCIATION USE THE CLASSIFIED ADS
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