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General Account
Council To Take Allocation
To Commission; Call For Change
In Protection of Lions By Parks
(Continued from Page One)
Strathmore vs. Tulare Irrigation District water suit.
The justices and their wives will reach Lindsay the afternoon of Saturday, May 29, have dinner there and afterward be guests at a public open-air reception at the Lindsay civic center. On Sunday the party will make the trip to Sequoia Park, where a picnic will be enjoyed. Monday the justices will have lunch with the county bar association and then return to Los Angeles.
Lions and Coyotes
Declaration of J. G. Hage, president of the Springville chamber of commerce that the campaign waged by trappers of the state fish and game commission and of the federal bureau of biological control had been highly successful, and that trappers might be stationed permanently in this district if civic organizations demanded, brought on a discussion of the policy of the government in maintaining the national parks as animal sanctuaries, where mountain lions and coyotes are protected and from which they sally to raid deer and domestic animals outside the park bounds. State and federal trappers are then paid to destroy the coyotes and lions. Homer Wood offered a resolution condemning this inconsistent procedure, and the resolutions committee was instructed to draw it up and forward it to the federal national park bureau. E. G. Dudley of Exeter commented on the "balance of nature" argument advanced by those favoring protection of all wild life within the parks, declaring that the balance was upset long ago.
Pleasant Skit
President Evans opened the meeting by calling on the presidents and secretaries of chambers of commerce present to say a few words, Donald Jones and Lester Skidmore responding for Porterville. D. R. Lightner, principal of Strathmore Union High School, then introduced two of his students, Paul Anderson and Billy Palmer, who put on a most entertaining parody of "The March of Time." Their "broadcasting" of a motor race between Constable W. D. Turney and a pair of fleeing bandits was especially good. Lightner also mentioned that Strathmore high school, winner of the basketball championship in the Sierra League, would play Livingston high school next Friday, at Strathmore, for the valley title.
A splendid steak dinner was served by the ladies of the Strathmore Presbyterian church. Representing Porterville at the meeting were Donald Jones, G. F. Slack, Jos. Elliott, W. B. Roby, C. B. Allumbaugh, Mr. and Mrs. Lester Skidmore, Dr. Edgar Danner and Homer W. Wood.
Continued from page 61.