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UNIVERSITY DAILY KANSAN, LAWRENCE, KANSAS
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MONDAY, NOVEMBER 28,1949
298 Hunters Die Since Sept.1
By UNITED PRESS
With the big hunting seasons barely half over, at least 298 persons have been killed accidentally since Sept. 1 a United Press survey show-
One hundred eighty-one of the victims died of gunshot wounds. Some were shot when they or companions accidentally discharged their shotsgun or riffles. Others were mistaken for game. Other deaths were caused by simple bad marksmanship.
Virtually all of the accidents could have been avoided, conservation and safety experts said, had the victims or their accidental killers acted with due caution.
"It's always the big if," one official said. "If the victim had taken frequent rests, he wouldn't have had a heart attack. If he unloaded his gun before climbing the fence, it wouldn't have discharged. If his buddy had looked twice before pulling the trigger, the victim wouldn't have been mistaken and killed for a deer."
Sixty-eight suffered fatal heart attacks due to the unaccustomed exertion of tramping through woods and fields, while 49 others died of miscellaneous causes including drownings.
California, however, reported only 22 deaths, a drop from last year despite a 10 per cent increase in hunting which saw 325,000 deer hunts. 180,000 duck hunters, and 300,000 pheasant hunters take to the woods, fields and water courses.
New York state led for all types of deaths with 29, including 13 from shooting. Minnesota was second with 28 and Michigan third with 24.
The tragedy was heightened in many cases because the killer and the victim were close relatives or friends. In Oklahoma, a father whirled at a rising covey of quail and fired, killing his son. In Colorado, a son killed his father, mistaking him for a deer. In Illinois, a woman shot at a pheasant and killed her husband.
John Wanamaker originated the saying. "The customer is always right."
Book May Be Out Of Place
A psychology instructor told his class of a book which he believed would prove helpful as a supplementary reading text.
One of the students later reported that he had attempted to check out the volume from the loan desk of the library and had been informed that it was on reserve. Going down to the reserve desk he found that it had been placed on reserve in 1927, and that the instructor who had it placed there has been dead 15 years.
Night Classes For Writers
A night-class in Topeka, designed to assist aspiring writers, is taught by Miss Frances Grinstead, assistant professor of journalism and author of the novel "The High Road."
The 24 persons enrolled in the class, Writing Roundtable, will study techniques of the short story, sketch, and other creative prose; how to study magazine and book publishing markets; they also analyze examples from work of professional writers and class members. The class meets each Monday night until Jan. 9, 1950.
Webster Rickshoff, district representative of the University Extension, organized the course for writers and another course, Techniques of Modern Industrial Leadership, in cooperation with the Topeka Night school.
Miss Grinstead has just concluded adult classes in creative writing at Wichita, and El Dorado under University Extension. She reports finding several students in these classes who are working on manuscripts for possible books.
Miss Grinstead is also teaching an Extension class, Writing Magazine Fiction, in Kansas City, Mo., on Tuesday nights. These classes will continue until Jan. 1.
Tree Finally Bears Fruit
Grand Rapids, Mich.-(U.P.)—After 17 years, a walnut tree owned by Mrs. Alma Hertel has finally produced fruit—one nut.
US Treasury Stands To Win If Yukon Gold Strike Pays
Treasury officials who assay, buy, and store gold in government coffers are never excited over reports of gold strikes in the Yukon.
As prospectors hurried to stake claims in the ice-locked sands and frozen gulches of Fishwheel, Alaska, government officials charged with handling gold bullion viewed it in impersonal terms of national wealth and a possible source of tax revenue.
When word came later that the supposed strike was suspected or being a hoax, officials merely shrugged. Even if the Fishwheel boom fizzles, there may be others later, and perhaps rich ones. If any event, it simply will mean more work for employees at the U.S. assay office in Seattle, Wash., where most of Alaska's "yellow wealth" is funnelled into the United States.
There Alaska's sourdough prospectors and great mining companies sell gold dust and nuggets over the counter to Uncle Sam much the same as a vegetable gardener sells beans to his local merchant. Only in this instance the commodity bartered is worth $25 an ounce.
A gold rush is nothing new to the Treasury department's assay office in Seattle. A federal gold purchasing station was established there July 16, 1898. It opened in time to receive the first shipment of gold from the great Klondike strike of that year.
During the next 18 months more than $5,000,000 worth of gold passed over its counters.
In rapid succession came strikes at Chandalar, Pedro, Firth River, and Fairbanks, pouring a steady stream of gold into U.S. mints.
During that period employees at the office heard tales of romance and high adventure as prospectors told of experiences along the hazardous trail from the Yukon to Seattle. One peril was hijackers who lay in wait for outgoing dog sleds laden with gold.
But today, department officials say, the job of transporting gold from drab to market is relatively drab routine. Hazards have been all but eliminated by modern air transport.
The Fishwheel strike hardly had been heralded to the world when crews began clearing an air strip. Reports from that Arctic outpost say it was clogged with planes used to bring in gold seekers and supplies and standing ready to carry cargoes of gold in event the strike pans out.
ermount's gold buyers just waited. If the gold comes through, they'll merely step up the tempo of relaying it to U.S. mints, where it will be molded into bars for burial in federal vaults at Fort Knox.
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Meanwhile, in Seattle, the government's gold buvers just waited.
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It Takes A Lot Of Work To Replace Social Security Cards
Lost social security cards are causing needless work. About 700 duplicate cards are issued monthly, John H. Cooter, manager of the Topeka Social Security administration office, said today.
He urged workers to take better care of their cards and to carry only half of a card which comes in two sections, with them. If the entire card is lost it requires a week to 10 days to check the records and issue a duplicate.
Issuance of some duplicate cards is unavoidable. Brides who continue working need cards showing their
married names. Duplicates are issued when pocketbooks are lost or stolen, or the card is left in a shirt pocket and goes through the family washing machine.
Anyone who loses his social security card should apply immediately for a duplicate at the nearest Social Security office, and not wait
until his employer asks for it, or he changes jobs. ___
Try The Pony Express
Topfield, Mass.—(U.P.)—Mrs. Charlotte Canfield received a postcard three years after it was mailed from Ipswich, only eight miles away.
When a star preceeds the number on some U.S. currency, it indicates that the bill is a substitute, issued to replace one that was worn or defective.
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