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Canada Geese
flourishing

By JOHN MADSON

The Canada goose, ultimate game among North American
waterfowl, is doing well. Those majestic V’s across our autumn
skies may be longer than ever this fall, as the continental
population of honkers flourishes.

Early 1971 surveys in all flyways by the Bureau of Sport
Fisheries and Wildlife showed our after-hunting carryover of
Canada geese to be well above a 16-year average. That doesn’t
guarantee a record fall flight, for there was bad weather last
summer in parts of the honkers’ northern nesting range. But in
spite of such setbacks, the fortunes of the Canada goose climb

steadily upward. How come?

For one thing, honkers next
beyond human meddling, deep
in the arctic and subarctic
barrens, far north of croplands,
farm politics and subsidized
drainage.

For another thing, the Canada
goose can be tightly managed,
Big refuges stop and hold the
bulk of cur Canada geese, and
the total goose Idi] on adjacent
public hunting areas can be
controlled, Before this refuge
system took hold, the big geese
were hurting in some regions,
In 1946 there were less. than
30,000 honkers in the entire
Mississippi Valley population.
Last year there were 35,000
Canada; shot in Illinois alone,
and the 1971 Federal survey of
Mississippi Flyway honkers
tallied 558,000 geese after the
hunting season.

But it’s not all gain. There has
been loss.

In the Mississippi and
Atlantic Flyways, most of the
Canada geese are shortstopped
by the northern refuges —
leaving the Dixie gunner with a
very flat game bag. Efforts
have been made to move some
of these northern goose con-
centrations down the flyways,
but. without much luck.

Some northern hunting has
suffered, toc, Gone are many
huge river sandbars where a
hunter could dig his pit and
stake aut a hundred decoys to
coax in the wedges of migrant
geese — another change

wrought by the Army
Engineers. Lacking suitable
rest stops, the geese are likely
to barrel right on through to the
refuges.

Once there, the swarms of
geese attract swarms of hun-
ters, and public hunts in such
areas are often travesties of old-
time goose hunting. Gunners
may be regulated: by: lottery,
with ‘loudspeakers calling::the
signals and every pre-fab goose
pit under the binoculars of Big
_ Brother.

Yet, intense hunter
management must be part of
intense goose management, and
that’s better than having
neither geese not hunters to
manage.

And for the independent goose
hunter, ‘in all ‘parts of the
honker’s present wintering
_ rarige, there are still. places
where a man can hunt in the old
way, the best way. It takes
-more time and effort than ~
most hunters want to spend, but
it's high personal adventure

that stands supreme in
American waterfowling.
SNOWS, BLUES
AND CONFUSION
For years, one of the

“ mysteries of waterfowl was why
blue geese and lesser snow
geese mixed so freely in the
same flocks.

Today biologists are con-
vinced that they've the same
bird — in different. color
achemes,

The two color. ‘phases com-
monly interbreed, and a‘ brood
. May include both. It's believed
‘that the white phase was
criginal, and that the blue phase
_ evolved later. The blue-phase
‘ goose was relatively rare’ Ad
years ago, but has been in-
* creasing and widening its range

ever since. One reason given for

this is that hunters prefer the

- white goose to the darker one,
thereby favoring survival of the
. blue.goose.

The greater snow goose,
which winters only on the
. Atlantic: ‘coast, is. larger and
~ chunkier: than: the: lesser snow;

, and does not have a blue

phase... .
The Federal Government has
ways been one of the nation's
@gest. publishers, ‘and -cer-
- figgest iP of the -worst. For
. Many ‘decades,. paper money
‘ was about the only thing the
+ Government printed that was of
: Teal. public: interest, =.
_ This began to change a while
“back, especially in the

. Department of the Interior. And |
. inthepastten years the U.S. Fish ° «~
and Wildlife Service has done.
itself- proud with -its bulletins

and’ hard-cover books. In 1944,
there’ . was

“series “ia “Sport Fishing

_ USA‘? which is one of the beat. 7 :
things ever done on the subject

_ = bythe Government ora 7OnB

“matter, writing style
"illustration. The 41 chapters ;
seat peti a

es a exper
hight

Saults and Mike Walker have
seen to that. The book is worth
more than the §10 that the
Superintendent of Documents,
Washington, D.C, 20402, is
getting for it.

Our Federal resource
agencies have a vital pitch to
make to the people — and this
new book is right across the
centre of the plate.

New stamp

OTTAWA-— A special issue
of 25 million commemorative
stamps has been-released by
the Canada Post Office to
honour Pierre Laporte, the
former Quebec Labour
Minister who was kidnapped
and assassinated last October
by members of the Front de
Liberation du Quebec. The 7
centissue, which went on sale
October 20th, 1971, marked the
50th anniversary of the year in
which Mr. Laporte was born.

wes

The design for the Laporte
commemorative was created
by George A. Gundersen of
Ottawa from a photograph by
Michel Giroux of Montreal.
The stamp measures 24 mm
by 40 mm

Collectors may order their
mint stamps at face value
through Philatelic Service,
Canada Post Office, OT-
TAWA, Ontario, ma OBS.

- Pierre Laporte ig

OUT ON THE ICE FOR THE FIRST TIME in
Prince Rupert's new arena, and for some of these
youngsters, the first time iri their life.

THE HERALD, TERRACE - KITIMAT, B.C,

stad g

practice.

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DESPERATION MOVES

Pulp and Paper magazine, the nation’s most influential
journal to the pulp and paper industry has called President °
._, Nixon's economic policies ‘abrupt, devil-take-the-hindmost _
“moves?” that amelh ‘not of confidence, hut désperation:"
Ti an October ‘ead editorial, thie preety
United States of an aggressive unilaterial action‘In an area
where international negotiations have long been the accepted

It states the United States seeks international economic .
leadership but compares its trading role unfavourable with -
that of Great Britain, which it calls the “last nation to
achieve unquestioned economic leadership”. :

Designer
bans

buttons

NEW YORK (AP) — Tt

- Jooks as if Oscar de la Renta"

had banned the button for —
spring with his one and two-.
button suits for men and
prominent zippers for women,

“] like most of all.the one-
button suit for men," the de-
signer sald. “after all, men
don't button but one-button.
anyway, : 2

His menswear collection.
included mostly two-button
sults, but the standout was the
one-button suit, which wases- -
pecially striking in a silk sin-
gle-breasted suit without
vents.

In his women’s speriswear
line, known as Something, he
showed bathing sults and rain-
coats witi. glant size zippers
in contrasting colors. How-
ever, several blazers had red _
enamel mens buttons as well ‘
as the standard pearl buttons.
HAS SALTY LOOK

Otherwise, the wo men’s
sportswear collection, prices
as low as $25 retail for ba-
thing suits and as high as $110.

-for blazers, had a predomi-.
nantly nautical look,

There were several shark-
skin sailor suits and skimmer
dresses with anchor or star

- appliques. Especially pretty

was a-blue and white plaid
blazer of dish cloth material,

blazers in taffeta plaid and:
several gingham pastel jong
skirts and blouses,

Kelowna man

ce world’s best

PAPETTE, Tahiti (CP) —
George Athans of Kelowna,
B.C., who won the world water
ski championship i in Spain last
month, led a team of eight
Western Hemisphere water
skiers to the gold medal in the
Tahiti World Cup champion-
ships Sunday,

‘The team, including Pierre
Piouffe of Sherbrooke, Que.,
four Americans, an Argentinian
anda Columbian, won out over
Europe by 65 points of a ,000—

total scored.

-Kosygin's on skates. fool

OTTAWA (CP) = : Premier Alexel: Kosygin today, was given’ - 7 if

wee:

__\Hlussian hockey team to Canada in February. for aude Giy ‘go
i international fournament; ) 081

. Mr; Kosygin protested he is too ‘oldto skate — heis67—~ ° -

; a pair of professional hockey skates and asked fo send a

when Senate ‘Speaker ' Jean-Paul Deschatelets gave him the
. skates in-theip stote box
._ .. “Na, no, not‘at, all,” chorused Senator Deschateletes and mo
Senator'Paul Martin, government. leader in the Senate. -
_ Mr. Kosygin; obviously. pleased with the gift, grintied widely
and said “They are very.fine skates.”
Marie will be able to skate on thin ice,” put in, Senator.
nm - .
IN GOOD HUMOR oF .
Mr. Kosygin started the third day of his Canadian visit with:
a tour of the Senate afid Commons chambers in the Parliameht :
Buildings. He appeared relaxed and in high good humor.
He said that even with the Canadian skates he is not likely to.
: accepted on the Soviet, Union’ s “big team” of all-star hockey
ayers,
Senator Deschatelets.said a Russian pee-wee team — ages
11 to 13 — would be received: warmly in Quebec City, All its”
expenses would be paid. . :
“T hope you have a few minutes to examine the possibility of:
@ pee-wee team coming to Canada," the Senate Speaker said.
Such pleasant requests give him nothing but RAPPINESS, Mr.
Kosvain replied.

freake ” said a model as h(i
‘ dipped out. of a bare-shoulie
dered. Bill’ Blass springs
“evening: dress, A

~. model said: But she worried

" that slumping makes her baciyj
hones jatick out.too much. -

' prim fabric, Some, particnt |
' andfull skirts, look as hot and

‘ after six, is just below the’
’ knee, but ‘some of the dressier
vo ensembles were: above the

know! ‘some reaTshould

“Bones are sexy,” anothet

‘ Blaga ‘showed lots of na’
and black taffeta; a rathey

larly those with stiff ruffledt

A
uncomfortable as dinosa |
costumes, but they were
pretty, .

Everyone keeps saying thatl
the chic length, especially forf

7

CBC sla tes
sports

The best is often saved for the -
last and in horse racing the old
maxim fits. The last major race
of the 1971 season, the Canadian
International Championship
Stakes (for the richest purse in
Canadian racing) will be run
Sunday, Oct. 24 at Woodbine in
Toronto and will betelecast live -'§
and in color on the full CBC-TV
network at 4 p.m. EDT.

Other sports highlights on
CBC television the weekend of
Oct. 23 and 24 beglining
Saturday include: two .CFL
football games — the Ottawa
Rough Riders at Hamilton
Tiger Cats in the East at 2 p.m,
EDT and Edmonton Eskimos at

Calgary Stampeders in the ©

West at 8 p.m. MST; the sports
show Replay at 6: 30 p.m, EDT
with. guests Jake Gaudaur,
Christilot Hanson and Nancy
Robertson; and Hockey Night in

Canada at 8 p.m. EDT with a

game between Philadelphi
Flyers and Toranto Maple

Continuing Sunday, sports
action begins with the NFL
game of the week at an early
Start time of 1 p.m. EDT
featuring the Miami Dolphins
against the New York Jets, —~

deeattis the sh

; “Waterfowl -
Tomorrow," followed by “Birds,
oe Our Lives’ in 1966. ‘Latest in ©.

Daily newspaper
advertising WOIKS

A key' measure of any advertising medium is its ability to reach consumers—and

_ newspapers reach‘almost all consumers in Canadian markets.

Then the advertising must communicate a message that is remembered.

The chart below shows the per cent of people who recognize advertising themes before
and after.a newspaper advertising campaign—people who use these praducts and

services.

“ADVERTISING THEME RECOGNITION

_ Percentage of target audience correctly identifying theme before C) after campaign.

oo . % Point
0 10 20 30° (40s 50 60 70 _ 80 100 Inexease
Packaged
Food 14%
‘Canned °
«Vegetables. 24%.
Gasoline | ee
— 34% |
' Vacuum foo
' Cleaner. mee 18%
Health 7
“2 Club —13%
a . 21%
- Imported : a _
_ Car a = 20%
By Sewing _ -_
Machine = Hb

in n the market place. a

readable. Eaters ‘Dali it

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. “thes and other research reports in a series of studied in ‘Canadian markets reinforce 7
_ the facts—advertising i in Canadian- daily 1 newspapers i isa sound Jovestment for: success.

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: “of the automotive world,
"We keep getting beiter

Since 1952, we've improved our little car over 2,300 times. -
Last yeor. we gave it a more powerful engine and nearly
“twice the luggage space it had before. °

This-year wa added 29

We found way to keep engine noise down,
We found o way to,make it run baiter in cold weather.
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