Imperial Valley press., 1939-08-21
BENCH
B. Kinne
POST-PRESS
SPORTS
EDITOR
w A R M | N 6
A Strange Passenger

Leonard Cooper and Burrell Por-
ter, a couple of Winterhaven avia-
tors landed at that airport last
week with one OF the strangest
passengers ever TO disembark at
California airport.
They brought with them a young
fawn. rescued from certain death
and starvation near the old min
ing town of Picacho IS miles north
of Winterhaven on the California
side OF the Colorado river
The aviators, who turned sports
men. first noted the fawn as they
circled over the desert. The mother
deer, nearby, appeared TO be as
leep so the men landed their plane
The doe was dead.
The young fawn Immediately
made friends with the aviators and
soon became the first member of
the deer family to take an air
plane ride. BY the time the plane
landed In Winterhaven the deer
had oriented itself 10 new condi-
tons and did a bit of romping a.
round for the ground crew at the
airport
Porter transported the fawn TO
his ranch TO await word from the
state Fish and Game commission
IL regard TO disposition of the deer.
Ciub Up In Arms :.
Officials OF the Calazona Gun
Club, the membership OF which
Is made up Of more than IT'S Yuma
and Imperial county sportsmen are
Up in arms over the lax manner in
which game laws are being en-
forced in the local area
Their complaint has particular
bearing on conditions on the CAL
ifornia side of the Colorado river
in Imperial county. With recent
action by the Federal and state
government in Arizona in creating
game reserves backed by strin-
gent restrictions and penalties en-
forced by close inspection and pa
troll the ruthless pot-hunters and
other so?called sportsmen have
been compelled to confine their
unlawful activities TO the unpro-
tected areas an the California side
OF the river.
Gun Club officials cite as illust-
rations of the wanton slaughter
of fish and game in this section
the fact that within recent weeks
at least seven fish traps of var
ious sizes have been removed from
the river by members of the club.
Several nets have been seized by
them and one or two prosecu-
tions have been effected.
Most of the fish traps and nets
have been found in the channel
near Laguna and Imperial dams.
They also report knowledge of one
man who recently brought in a
load of AZ ducks taken near nest
ing grounds up the river close TO
Picacho Excessive limits of both
big and small bass are common.
With the impounding of clear water
back of the recently completed
Imperial dam which forms lake
10 or more miles in extent the way
has been made easy for the lawless
minded nimrods who have little re-
gard for fishing as sport.
The wanton slaughter of the
few remaining mountain sheep
still to be found in rough desert
country between here and Palo
Verde continues with certain in
dividuals boasting of their unbroken
record of at least one sheep per
annum over a period of years. The
recent activities of local Indian
who has offered for sale on several
occasions as many as four or five
dozen quail and doves has been
curtailed but these instances are
said TO be common. Efforts to in
duce the State Fish and Game
Commission to put full time man
on the Job in this area are bearing
fruit and it is reported that a con-
ference between IN commissions OF
the two states is to be held in Yuma
in October at which time II Is
hoped measures will be adopted
which will effectually stop much OF
the present Illegal hunting ano
fishing.