The people's voice. [volume] (Helena, Mont.) 1939-1969, 1963-09-27

PIXIES on their horses. He picks up
his rifle and approaches the dreadful
intruders which have the mystic yell
low tags of the Montana FIG De-
partment on the sheep.
81 am with the Idaho F&G," says
Bwana which should terrify anyone
But no, all he got from Ford, who is
warden supervisor on the other side
of the mountain, was the interested
question, "What section of the de-
partment?"
Bwana admitted that he was not
with Idaho officially except as a
permittee. He ordered them to get
out of his area and back into the
Montana wilds.
1t do make Bwant mad. Those cot
tonpicking natives need a lesson. He
contacted the Idaho FIG tribe who
started the drums talking. Montana
FIG tribesmen understand the talk
ing drums and knew that blood must
be drawn.
At ST. Anthony, Idaho, the local
witchdoctor County attorney, drew
the evil spells from his medicine bag
which pleases Bwana no end. This
was quite frightening to the Montana
FIG Department, so they said big
magic So the Idaho federal courts
system and a federal grand jury
listened to the terrible thing that
Bwana supposed.
The jury was not impressed with
Bwana's jaded view and threw the
matter out.
Although the Montana department
had said they would go along with
the decision of the federal grand jury
the evil spell from ST. Anthony had
poisoned their minds and Ford was
fired.
Ford's hearing was graced by
Bwana who said not only was the
sheep killed in Idaho but that Ford's
sheep did not have enough curl in
its horns to be legal. Oh, yes, Ford
was bad cottonpicker, chined in the
not only blew up a
beaver dam to let water into a hay
field which was standard procedure
for years, he spilled whiskey out of
fellow warden's hand at the Gov
ernor's Conference when governors
from other states were admiring the
beautiful emblems and patches on his
Uniform. Doesn't Ford like our uni
forms? Surely he did believe the
silly regulation about drinking while
n uniform? Why he even let his
lorses eat government grass while
hey were doing GRATIS work for the
Ford has also made himself I'M
popular in the department by making
surprising amount of arrests in his
en- years of service with the FIG.
lie makes the rest of the tribe look
azy.
Jim Ford rs pilot and has served
ur outdoor resources well.
Why he would want to continue
ror'king for the FIG lis beyond me
ut some men are devoted to- wildlife
esources and that sort of thing. Mon
ana offering sacrificial lambs up to
good public relations with
IDAHO will only gain disrespect for
Iontana's sense of fair play.
Bwana had best return to the
lngles of San Francisco banking
nd not be so jealous of other hunters.
The secret of hunting lis to find
oursef first whether it is in Idaho,
[ontana or the ridge of Targhee
fountain.
Postscript: In what appears as
obvious disgust at being cast in the
role of gun bearers for the great
white hunter out to bag a game
warden, the FIG Commission on
Wednesday denoted Director Wal
ter J. Everin and his assistant, Don
= Brown, to district supervisors in
. radical department shakeup which
elevated the propaganda expert,
Frank II. Dunkle, to acting direc-
or, and Keith A. FRESHMAN as the
assistant.
Dunkle limited to the press, upon
news of his new post, that there