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(EDITOR'S NOTE; The follow ing article by Port Arthur News Outdoors Editor Ed Holder ap peared in the November 22 edi tion. It is being reprinted here as a matter of interest to the thousands of East Texas sports men who love deer hunting and the great outdoors.) By ED HOLDER Outdoors Editor Port Arthur News Opening of the new public deer hunting area near Pineland, under sponsorship of Sportsmens Clubs of Texas, has been postponed indefinitely. The reason? Outlaw hunters are killing the deer ‘‘as fast as we turn ’em loose,” said Henry J. LeBlanc, Port Arthur, presi dent of Sportsmen’s Clubs of Texas, LeBlanc had hoped the area would open to hunters sometime soon... perhaps by Dec. 1. But he apparently has abandoned that hope, based on the events of the past few weeks, ‘We've turned loose 70 deer on the area, all of them trapped on the King Ranch and trans ported up here. So far, we know of four does that have been killed. There may have been others wounded that went off to die somewhere,” he said. Early one morning this week, workers on the area who are busy trying to finish fencing the 10,000-acre area, heard a shot on one of the roads around the area. They investigated, and found an empty rifle cartridge. A short distance away in the woods, they found a dead nine point buck. *'That’s the first buck we know that has been killed. But with something like this, you never know how many are wounded or crippled,’? LeBlanc said. Although the killing of these deer on the area has been a dis appointment to LeBlanc and other officials of SCOT who have labor ed to make this project a reality, it came as no surprise. They were warned before they started the project that a small, determined segment of the local population would resent fencing any of the area which they were accustomed to hunting. Some of the warnings went so far as to indicate that the deer inside the area would be killed at every opportunity. That warning has become a disgusting fact... disgusting be cause the acts of a few are depriving hundreds, possibly thousands, of Texas sportsmen of a place to hunt deer. The area included in the SCOT project lies in two counties, north of Pineland. Part of it is in San Augustine County, and part of it is in Sabine County. Both counties have reputations for their outlaw game hunters. The project, when complete, will have a deer-proof fence around 10,000 acres. Already 6,000 acres are under fence. A total of $125,000 has been spent in developing the project —a project that includes a head quarters building and a care taker’s house. The idea behind the project, which is called Operation White tail, East Texas, is to trap deer on the King Ranch where they are overly abundant, and move them to the Pineland area where the public can hunt them. The Caesar Kleburg Founda tion is paying the bills, with SCOT doing the work. As planned, the cost of the hunt would be held to a mini mum —$10 for a day’s hunting, plus the cost of replacing a deer if the hunter is successful. That later figure, although not estab lished as yet, has been estimated at about $35 to $40 for a buck. It was decided that the area would be fenced in four sections, each containing about 2500 acres. Deer would be stocked on the first one until enough were there to be hunted. The other section would be stocked later. It was hoped that this initial step toward opening the area to hunters would be completed this month. It almost was, in fact. LeBlanc said, however, that he has ordered all transportation of deer into the area stopped. “We're not bringing in any more right now,’ he said. Before the movement of deer is resumed, the problem with outlaw hunters must be stopped, he said, ‘We don’t have any law en forcement up there. The hunters are shooting from the road, kill ing the deer inside the fence, then dragging them out,’’ he ex ‘We now have four patrolmen working the area, but they can’t be everywhere all the time. ‘We knew when we went in up there that there would be some resentment. But we felt that in a course of time, we’d probably overcome it. We still think so,’’ he said, CARRELL’S HUNTINGTON, TEXAS BISCUITS “The unfortunate thing about it is that most of the citizens in that area are supporting us. They want us up there. But a few people don’t, and they’re the ones who are causing all the trouble. “And another thing is that the actions of these few are keeping hundreds of people from enjoying these facilities, ‘We have applications from hundreds of hunters who want to know when we'll open, and how they can hunt,’’ he said. LeBlanc said the killing of deer on the area has also been a dis appointment to many of the com munity leaders around Pineland and Jasper. **This project will mean a lot to the economy of that area. Hunters will go there, spending money for motels, meals, hunt ing gear, and everything. Most of the leaders of the area realize that, and were very happy when we decided to build there,’* he added, “Now they’re just as disap pointed as we are, that we are having to postpone the opening,’’ he said. When asked whether or not he expected the area to open this season (before Dec. 31), LeBlanc said he did not know. However, he indicated that it’s entirely possible that the project won't open until next year, when he said no more deer are being brought in now. Earlier he had said that the area will not open until there are enough deer inside the en closure to provide good hunting. And right now, that number is decreasing instead of increasing. FRIENDLY~—Beverly Nich ols, senior student of West Sabine High School, Pine land, has been voted as the friendliest student of the class. Other honors confer red include ‘Basketball Sweetheart of 1964-1965’. Miss Nichols was also the reigning queen of the high school at the Halloween Carnival festivities held Oct. 30. She is the daugh ter of Mr. and Mrs. Bill Nic hols of Pineland, formerly of Lufkin. FOOD SPECIALS THURS, FBI, SAT, AND WON DEC. 3, 4, 5 AND 7 1 GALLON (2 HALF GAL. PEGS.) PRESTONE And FreeZe GAL. CAN 1.69 100 SIZE FANCY DELICIOUS APples DOZ. 59. FRESH GROUND HAMBURGER VEAL LOIN STEAK HUNT HALVES PEACHES. HEINZ STRAINED BABY FOODS. CATSUP. (58¢ Value) EXTRA LARGE WESSON OIL. RED GRAPES, DELSEY TOILET TISSUE. LB. 39 CHILI. SUN VALLEY » 69 ° CLED. CAN No. 2% Can 15: wn 29: Div A3 TOURING EAST TEXAS won 59 ASE Rol! Pkg. » 33, ATS By BOB BOWMAN It’s autumn in East Texas—and time for syrup-making. The rural industry dates back to pioneer days, but it is ad mittedly a dying art. “In a few years, all of the syrup mills will be gone,” pre dicts Helen Wilcox, 55, who op erates a mill beside Texas Hwy. 23 south of Rusk. The ingredients for syrup making are simple: Lots of sugar cane, a cane press, a few barrels and buckets, an outdoor vat, and plenty of pine knots to feed a roaring fire under the cane juice. If you’re planning a visit to a syrup mill this fall, it would be advisable to contact the operator in advance and find out when he will be ‘making syrup’”’ and if he permits visitors. Some other mills in the piney woods: _. At the Grady Whitehead farm in the Fairview community, south of Lufkin, in Angelina County. At the F. K. Adams farm in Newton County, nine miles east of Jasper on Texas Hwy, 63. —At the S. Courtney farm, five miles northeast of Corrigan on Farm Road 1987. Two Broadway hits and Jose Greco and his Spanish dancers will be featured at Stephen F. Austin State College’s fine arts auditorium this winter and spring in Nacogdoches. Edgar Lee Masters’ “Spoon River”, the hit play based on Masters’ anthology, will play on Nov. 23. Greco and his dancers and singers will perform on March 22, followed on May 6-8 by the Lerner and Lowe production of “My Fair Lady.”’ Tickets to any of the produc tions may be ordered by mail from the college. (This column distributed weekly by the East Texas Tour ist Assn., Nacogdoches, Texas.) Ends Course FORT GORDON, Ga, — Pvt. James W. Ramsey Jr., whose parents live on Route 3, Box 117, Lufkin, Texas, completed a 15- week teletypewriter equipment repair course at the Army South eastern Signal School, Fort Gor don, Georgia. Nov. 13, Ramsey was trained to main tain and repair teletype sets and related equipment, such as page printers and transmitters. He entered the Army last March and completed basic train ing at Fort Leonard Wood, Mo. 5 LBS. 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Thu, Dec 03, 1964
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