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Newspaper
San Antonio Light
Location
San Antonio, Texas, United States of America
Date
Feb 05, 1947
Page
2
Aber deen Angus cat named grand champion at the Houston Fat Stock show in San Antonio by an Es sar ranch representative, reported Wednesday.
At the Plaza Hotel the Texas Wildlife Federation urged authority for the game commission to regulate open seasons bag limits and methods of taking birds and fish. Proposals include public hunting grounds leases licenses and consolidating funds. A universal hunting license would cost $2 annually and a universal fishing license $1.10 with exemptions and free fishing for certain local groups.
Members of the Texas and Southwestern Cattle Raisers will meet at the Gunther hotel at 10 a m Friday to discuss eradicating foot and mouth disease in Mexico and preventing its entry into the United States C E Weymouth president of Augario will preside
Clarence Cottam of the Fish and Wildlife Service told the wildlife conference that migratory waterfowl are worth about one and a half billion dollars as a national asset. The federal service monitors 180 refuges over more than a million acres of marshland. one fifth of all ducks winter there. The 1948 survey showed ducks nesting in New Brunswick Prince Edward Island and southern Quebec declined one fourth since 1945, with Manitoba and Saskatchewan reporting similar drops. Albert Hachbaum urged stopping early-season hunting to prevent extermination, calling for outlawing commercial shooting camps on breeding marshes and halting early-season hunting to avoid barren nesting grounds within 20 years. A Mason County 640 acre timber tract survey found overpopulation causing several deaths, with cold weather killing others and affecting food supply. From Jan 5 to Apr 3, 1945, 31 deer died and two became sick in this area.
Charles TM. Jackson, general manager of the National Fisheries Institute, urged a North American Wildlife conference to educate the public about power dam building. He warned against dams built for flood control where none was needed and called for public campaigns to stop dam projects on the Potomac and other rivers. He urged citizens to fund education and to fight federal dam plans that threaten farms and fisheries.
MOSCOW FEB 5 The government issued its fifth demobilization order since June 23 1945. It singles out several thousand more Russian armed forces personnel for return to civilian life as part of ongoing postwar demobilization efforts.
Commissioner P L Anderson received a blue enamelled gold badge from the State of San Luis Potosi making him honorary police and traffic chief. The badge was presented by Gen Matias Ramos Santos at Fire Station No 2 with Meahan Consul Gustave Ordé Hernan Gen Jonathan M Wainwright and other dignitaries in attendance.
New York Feb 5. A British broadcast reports the Newfoundland government council has announced plans for a possible union with Canada. The report signals ongoing discussions about future political ties between Newfoundland and the Canadian federation.
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CHICAGO Feb 0 The orchestra leader Ted Lewis has filed a $100000 damages suit against the Sherman hotel alleging he was beaten by an agent and servant of the hotel in his room on January 2. His attorney Joseph Barbera said a waiter struck him after Lewis complained about room service.
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