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jThe summer heat and drought were rough on
Thxas wildlife, but most experts feel the deer
hinting season that opens Saturday will be more
than adequate.
■“We suspect that overall, the deer population is
bplow the 3 million mark for the first time in 12
iars,” said Charles Winkler, big-game program
ectorfor the Texas Parks and Wildlife Depart-
jent, who based his conclusion on preliminary
pres from wildlife census counts.
“But that still leaves a heck of a lot of deer out
|ere,” he said Monday.
Hunting season for both mule deer and white-
tails begins a half-hour before sunrise Saturday in
4 sections of the state except the Panhandle,
i where the season starts Nov. 22, and extreme
ijwest Texas, where it opens Nov. 29. The season
ends Jan. 4.
|| Last summer’s extended drought caused wide
spread starvation of deer in some sections of south
fcas, Winkler said, noting that the estimated
peculation is down 50 percent in western south
Texas.
JAlthough the Brackettville area in Kinney
County was probably hardest hit, said Dr.
mght Guynn, area wildlife specialist with the
Tjcxas Agricultural Extension Service in Uvalde,
^{liis is still within the realm of fluctuations that
live been experienced in the past.”
|| He said the 50 percent decrease probably ap
plies in Kinney County but estimated the de
base in surrounding counties at about 30 per-
Int.
IThe figures may not be as disconcerting as they
Ipear.
[Parts of the south Texas brush county experi-
Iced overpopulations of deer in recent years,
“We suspect that overall,
the deer population is
below the 3 million mark
for the first time in 12
years, ” said the big-game
program director for the
Texas Parks and Wildlife
Department. “But that still
leaves a heck of a lot of
deer out there. ”
Guynn said, and the dry weather may have
helped bring them under control.
He predicted, nevertheless, that the earlier
overpopulation and dry weather would produce
smaller animals with smaller antlers.
In other areas of south Texas — where rainfall,
particularly that brought by Hurricane Allen, was
more abundant — deer are more plentiful and of
higher quality.
“Generally, as you move east through the rain
fall patterns (in south Texas), ” Winkler said, “the
populations are as high as last year and higher in
some areas. Along the coast, it is a little higher.”
Winkler said the eastern part of Texas, where
little drought effects were felt, will provide ade
quate game, maybe even more than last year.
In the Hill Country, the state’s deer-hunting
stronghold, summer die-offs were recorded, but
the area had an overpopulation of up to 60 pecent
in some places before the drought began, Guynn
said.
Even with dry weather and tolls taken on the
herd in previous years, deer still abound in the
Hill Country.
“An average harvest in the Hill Country is ab
out 10 percent of the herd,” Guynn continued.
“But a 25 percent harvest is necessary to keep the
herd from increasing, and a harvest over 25 per
cent is needed to decrease the size of a deer herd
significantly.”
Winkler said continuing good weather coupled
with a solid food supply could mean good Hill
Country hunting throughout the season.
Other regions of Texas reporting slightly lower
deer populations are areas of the Edwards Plateau
and parts of north central Texas, sections also
particularly hard hit by drought.
Shifting discussion from the hunted to the hun
ter, Winkler said he had one prime piece of advice
for shooters going afield Saturday.
“Be sure of what you are shooting at,” he said.
“That’s the main thing I try to get across.”
To help hunters distinguish deer from other
hunters, he recommended everyone in the wild
wear some item of florescent orange clothing.
“Deer are color blind,” he said, “so they can’t
distinguish this color.”
Because deer have a weak sense of eyesight, a
skillful hunter can make the most of it, Guynn
said.
“Deer fail to recognize still objects, yet they’re
quick to pick up even the slightest movements,”
he said. “By remaining motionless, even though
in full view of the deer, the hunter stands an
excellent chance of going undetected and may get
the chance to squeeze off a shot at close range. ”
United Press International
TOKYO — A Japanese truck driver, wearing a home
made, bullet-proof vest over a jogging suit, dropped in
at police headquarters Tuesday and claimed $473,900
he found wrapped in a cloth on a Tokyo street eight
months ago.
“I ran about two kilometers (1.25 miles), then on an
impulse decided to claim the money and took a taxi to
the police office,” Isao Onuki, 42, said, showing the
check for 100 million yen to newsmen.
Since the real owner had not claimed the money by
last Saturday, Onuki became the new possessor under
Japanese law.
After taxes, Onuki’s net take will be $317,500.
Police had held the money, a bundle of 10,000-yen
notes, since Onuki turned it in.
When Onuki first spotted the cloth bundle on a corner
on Tokyo’s famous Ginza April 25, he said he thought it
contained old newspapers, which he could sell to scrap
dealers.
Onuki, who quit his truck-driving job sometime after
finding the bundle, arrived for the “pickup” protected
only by his vest. He then headed to the bank with the
same protection to deposit the bonanza.
He explained he fired his 10 guards, who were to
accompany him, because of what he called a difference
over security arrangements.
Police are still puzzled about the origin of the money,
saying the absence of any claims strongly suggests the
cash was a payoff for illegal deals.
After the brief encounter with the press and TV
cameras, Onuki left for the bank to deposit the money.
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taffand ® | jLUBB()C K, Texas — Advocates
, ever asst* M amove to rename a street in honor
Auditor* iiDr Martin Luther King Jr. have
rebuffed repeatedly, but they
Bo have refused to accept alterna-
| . live commemorations to the slain
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IIV T rlAt a Human Relations Commis-
* sion meeting Monday night, only 13
1 people showed up at the Mae Sim-
mo:h Community Center to discuss
pjernative means of honoring the
civil rights leader. Participants
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indicated they would accept nothing
less than the renaming of Quirt Ave
nue, a major east side thoroughfare
in Lubbock.
Vera Newsome, representing the
United Political Action League, said
her organization has mailed letters to
City Council members requesting
that Quirt Avenue’s name be
changed to Martin Luther King
Boulevard.
“I don’t think the council mem
bers are listening to what the people
are saying,” she said. At two council
meetings on the proposed name
change, only two persons spoke
against the change while hundreds
supported it, she said.
An HRC representative said the
council has failed to give reasons for
opposing the name change. Howev
er, he said, in the past council mem
bers have argued that a precedent
would be set, leading to hundreds of
requests to rename streets.
Some council members have also
argued that the idea to rename Quirt
Avenue is without full support of the
minority community, he said.
Proponents for the change argue
that surveys conducted in other
cities show no overflow of requests to
rename streets after street names
were changed to honor King.
“They can take a rock ‘n’ roll sin
ger,” an HRG member said, “and
put a statue of him in front of the
Civic Center. What has he (home
town celebrity Buddy Holly) ever
done for human rights?”
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