The Pharr Press (Pharr, Tex.), Vol. 35, No. 32, Ed. 1 Thursday, August 8, 1968 Page: 3 of 6
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THURSDAY, AUGUST 8, 1968
THE PHARR PRESS. PHARR (HIDALGO COUNTY), TEXAS
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VAllEY SPORTSMEN CIU»
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By HARRY FOEHNER
For less than the cost of a
package of cigarettes you can
preserve a lifesize picture of that
fish you were so proud of. It will
he so unique your guests will
comment about it and your wife
will be proud to let you hang it
on the wall.
You’ll need a sheet of Japanese
rice paper from a good art-supply
store and a tablespoon of black
printer’s ink. mimeograph ink or
artist’s oil color for the actual
print. Get a shallow cardboard
box a little longer than the fish,
several quarts of fine sand, a
small brush, some common pins,
a roll of paper towels, a couple of
feet of plastic food wrap and a
wet bath towel. Have a can of
cleaned. Keep on ice if some
time should elapse before you can
work with it.
Football Schedule
PSJA Bears — 1968
[ Sept. 13—Donna There.
Sept. 20—Rio Grande City Here.
Sept. 27—Mission There.
*Oct. 4—Harlingen There.
*Oct. 11—Alice Here.
*Oct. 18—Kingsville There.
*Oct. 25—McAllen Here.
*Nov. 1—Brownsville There.
*Nov. 8—San Benito Here.
*Nov. 15 Edinburg Here.
Fill the box with sand, lay the . —Denotes conference games,
plastic wrap over it. Place the | ^11 games start at 8 p.m.
fish on top of that. Shake the box j • • *
gently to partially anchor the fish j
‘™s;t toweimg, Serub Reserved Season
the surface slime off your model
and spread his tail and fins as
you want them to appear. Use
pin thrusts through the fins and
into the sand to keep these mem-
bers properly spread. Push some
additional sand under them for
a firm support.
Roll up the sheet of paper in
the damp towel. You can dispense
with this step but dampening the
SPORTS
^ROUND-UIP^
IF YOU HAVE NEVER BAG-
GED A BUCK and would like to,
or if you are an archer, and want
to try your skill at bagging eith-
er a buck or a doe deer, then we
recommend that you make your
plans now to hunt on the Aran-
sas Wildlife Refuge, which, as
the name implies, i3 near Aran-
sas Pass, or north of Corpus
Christi. This is the famous
Whooping Crane Refuge. (No
cranes at this time of course).
to the last rains, probably for the
hunt to come.
Personally, we would not get
any thrill out of bagging a buck
on this place as it would be too
easy with rifle. If we were
an archer, then it would provide
some thrills. There will be plen-
ty of game ava Table.
The wild boars were very dark,
just like javelinas, but did not
have the distinguishing white
collar that all of these animals
have. All of these animals had
long tails—much longer than a
jaA^elina.
The deer were small—does in
the 50-60 to 75 lb. class. About
However, in the game the pre-
vious night, a Philly super star,
White, failed to try for a fly
ball right down the first base line
in easy reach of the first base-
man. He left it for the right field-
er and he was too rar ou,t of
position.
We could write a lot more a-
bout baseball in the Astro Dome.
If you haven’t been yet, you,
should go. You'll always remem-
that is mounted in RAY’S CAFE
on Highway 281 two miles north
of Faysville, and mentioned that
this snake was killed by a Mr.,
Vela. Well, this Mr. Vela is one
of the Velas that have the ranch
a few miles north and west eS
this cafe. This information conaet
from CARL J. KLINGER, who
has a hunting lease on one of the:
Vela pastures . . . Another
LARGE rattlesnake skin is in the
. paper makes it more flexible for
lighter fluid ready in case you easier moldin
goof.
The fish must not have been
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Now coat the entire surface of
your catch with the ink, spread-
ing it evenly and thinly with the
brush. Working from the head to-
ward the tail rather than inking
back and forth seems to give the
best impression.
Spread a paper towel over the
fish, and quickly mold it down
with your hands. This absorbs
the excess ink. When you peel
the towel away, you’ll have a
rough preview of how the final
print will appear.
Now take the sheet of damp-
ened rice paper and with the nap-
ped side of the sheet down, hold
it over the fish, center it care-
fully, then lower the paper into
contact. Once contact is made,
the paper cannot be repositioned
or the print will be blurred.
Mold the paper quickly and
carefully to all contours so the
ink transfers to the paper. Be
careful to get good contact on
the fins, tail and around the jaws.
Then gently lift the paper off.
If you have done a good job, a
fairly perfect reproduction of
your prize, scales and all, will be
on the paper. If it is less than
satisfactory, moisten a paper tow-
el with a little lighter fluid, scrub
the model, then re-ink and try
again.
Hang the rice paper up to dry
and if you need to do any re-
touching, use a toothpick dipped
in the ink and fill in any fin-
spines that didn’t transfer prop-
erly or to round out a scale. Go
mighty easy because much of the
charm of these prints lies in their
ragged and indistinct edges.
Atfer the ink dries, you can
iron out the wrinkles or leave
them in the paper if you like the
effect. Write in the date and
other data and then enclose your
masterpiece in narrow, black pic-
ture molding.
# * *
Some good entertainment is in
store for those attending sports-
men club meetings this month
and visitors are always welcome.
“Skeet Shooting with D. Lee
Braun,” and “Wild Heritage” are
movies that will be shown when
the Valley Sportsmen Club meets
in the Central Power and Light
Company building at Weslaco
Tuesday night, August 13.
The Brownsville Sportsmen
Club will see “High Road to Yose-
mite” and “Wild Heritage” Aug-
ust 15 and theWeslaco Sportsmen
Club will hear a talk by Gene
Nations on hunting and see “High
Road to Yosemite” Monday night,
August 26.
Tickets For PSJA
Go On Sale Aug. 17
PSJA season reserved football
tickets for last year season hold-
ers will go on sale Monday, Aug-
ust 19th and will remain on sale
unt 1 Tuesday, Sept. 3rd, Athletic
Director and Head Coach Charlie
Williams announced this week.
On Sept. 3rd, all reserved sea-
son tickets not sold to the sea-
son ticket holders will go on sale
to the general public and will re-
main on sale through Sept. 12th.
Most of the Bear’s BIG GAMES
will be at home this year. These
are McAllen. San Benito, Alice
and Edinburg. The other home
game, a non-conference game, is
against Rio Grande City.
The tickets will be on sale at
the ticket office, v/est side of Bear
Stadium, from 8 a.m. to 5 p.m.
daily, Monday through Friday.
Sports Round Upper and fami- £ same 4™^ fivl buck"
seen were good size—maybe 100
to 125 lbs. All the bucks were
ly made a hurried tou,r through
the Refuge a few days ago en
route to Houstbn and we saw _ . ,. -
plenty of game, especially deer, very close-less than 100 yards,
in a casual one and one-half houi w^th three on y 40 o yar a‘
trip through the Refuge, driving Thl!y did not become alarmed
about 20 miles. One road tour of i an<J away ?lowly' only af‘
5 miles each way and another of |ter ,: ie cai ^as ^stoPPe ■
about 3 miles each way was not'
her it. You get a new perspec- i office of JAY MOORE, gunsmith,
on Upas St., McAllen. Previous^
mentioned was the two large
skins at HILTON’S TAXIDERMY*
which Taxidermist Clyde SinSSu
has had for many years. AH ©f
these skins are in the 70 to
inch category . . .
A & I Schedule
Texas A & I University season
football tickets are now on sale.
The 1968 home schedule of the
Javelinas is as follows:
Sept. 21 — Trinity University.
Oct. 12 — Stephen F. Austin.
Oct. 26 — McMurry College.
(Homecoming)
No. 2 — Sul Ross State.
Nov. 16 — Sam Houston State.
(Dad’s Day)
HEMOSTAT AS HOOK
REMOVER
If you’ve got a doctor pal, have
him get you a used surgical hem-
ostat (one has very short life
for surgical needs and many are
discarded regularly). Its clamping
mechanism and trim shape makes
the finest hook disgorger going
and high-grade steel never rusts.
taken. Another road of about 8
miles each way was closed due
to wash outs and high water.
For the second consecutive
year, archers will be permitted
to hunt on the Refuge, first
come, first served, from Sept. 1-8.
Then rifle hunters will have their
chance from Sept. 11 through Sept.
30th. Rifle hunters will have to
draw for days to hunt, however.
As previously mentioned, we
made a short tour of the Refuge
during the noon hour mid-day
and did not expect to see a lot
of game, hut on this 20-mile trip
— 10-miles down the Refuge and
10 miles back, we saw some 25
does, 5 bucks, with 3 of the 5
large ones; and 6 of the wild
hogs (not javelinas).
Everywhere we went, there
was water and most of the deer
seen were in water and feeding
on some of the green sprouts
that were coming up out of the
water. The antlers of all of the
bucks were in the velvet. We
would think that most of them
will still be in the velvet on Sept.
1st when the archery season
starts.
Game Refuge officers say there
are 14,000 deer on the Refuge—
far too many. Hunters may have
to use hip boots—we were hardly
out of sight of water at any time
in the tour. The underbrush is
very heavy. We would think
hunters would have to stick to
the roads or the senderos. There
were new oru just made prior
tive on baseball.
* * *
WHAT IS ASTRO-WORLD?
Well, it ig a lot of fun. Nothing
much educational anywhere, but
it is a lot of enjoyment, whether
you are young, middle aged or
old. Sports Round Upper, wife
Mabel, and son Dick spent a de-
lightful 6 or 7 hours there and
saw most everything, except a
few of the shows and some of
the rides (several) that we did
not want to take.
This column is getting so long,
AS STATED IN A PREVIOUS .
PARAGRAPH, we were en route ™ Pf 5>mthmg in next
week about this unusual play-
to Houston, main purpose of
which was to see a couple of base-
ball games and also to visit the
famous Astro-World. We saw the
games of August 2-3 with the
Phillies. Astros won one 4-3 with
a come from behind rally in the
8th and lost the next 2-1. Fifteen
thousand were present for one
house, built by Hofheinz, the
same man who built and controls
the Astro-Dome.
« * ♦
ODDS & ENDS PICKED up
here and there in the world of
sports—Did you know there are
at least four different kinds of
game and 21,000 for the next. | pheasants that have been brought
Quite a contrast to the first time I to the United States? These in-
we visited the Astro-Dome when elude Calif, ring-necked, western
there was 35,000 present for one
game and 25,000 for another.
The Astros seem to be a bet-
ter all around ball club than they
were several years ago but they
are still in last place. They have
a better infield than they have
ever had. They make the double
play as good as any one. In the
outfield, their fielding is as good
as any one, as they are better
in the Astro-Dome than the
others, hut they do not have an
outstanding hitter in the outfield
his season. Jimmy Wynn was
their star last year hut he has
not been hitting the long ball
or getting the clutch hits this
year. His fielding has not been up
to par, and during the 2nd game
that we saw, he was benched af-
ter the 3rd inning when he was
too slow in relaying the ball in,
allowing a hitter to take another
base. Few managers would have
the nerve to bench a star like
this, especially a Negro, but
Walker did and Wynn may be-
come a better player as a result.
Iranian crossbreed, Afghan white
winged and gray francolins. The
ring-necked is the most common
and is the one that is so pre-
valent in the mid-west. . . Several
weeks ago, this column men-
tioned the big rattlesnake skin
Parks Will Charge
$1 Entrance Fee
Two Rio Grande Valley area,
state parks that have been free
heretofor will have a $1 per ear
per day entrance fee.
These are Bentsen-Rio Grande-
Park southwest of Mission and
Falcon Lake Park near Falco*:
Dam in Zapata County.
The Bentsen Park is very pop-
ular for trailer travelers and Mrd
watchers, many of whom stay
weeks at a time.
Falcon Park is popular for fish-
ermen and for campers. There Is
a trailer park in the area also*
which is very popular in the
winter time.
These fees will begin on or
soon after Sept. 1st, 1968.
The money derived from this
entrance fee will be used to pro-
vide additional outdoor recrea-
tion sites in Texas.
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