Dem was da daz, da waz. I had been up to Alaska to make me fortune during
the summer of 59, after me first year of collage schoolin. When I got back.
Me Ma and Pa says " how'd ya do"? And I says "not so good" I got me here
$3.76. They didn't say too much for a spell. (true story)

Jerry Converse
Grand Coulee, WA

Eugene Kridler wrote:

> Pilot-biologist Glahn and I flew the weeklt aerial census of the
> Sacramento Valley> Totals for the Sacramento, Colusa and Sutter Refuges
> were 266,500 geese and l,520,000 ducks. Among the ducks on the refuges
> were: Mallard 255,000, Pintail 730,000, Wigeon 5l5,000, Green-winged
> Teal 30,000 and Shoveler 2l,500. Among the geese were Snows l50,000,
> White-fronted l29,000, Cackling 40,000, Canadas of other races l,600 and
> Ross 950. We flew over the Bean Patch which was a privately owned gun
> club of about 580 acres and counted about l,400,000 ducks, mostly
> dabblers, for an overall total figre of 2,920,000 ducks. Oops! I forgot
> to mention this was on Dec.26, l959. Oh, to be young, bright-eyed and
> bushy-tailed again. To be young, bright-eyed and bushy-tailed.Oh, dem
> was de days. D-d smart aleck! To add a bit more levity and lighten youse
> grim and serious people up, in dose days we in the Coot and Carp Service
> (U.S. Fish and Wildlife) would call our enforcement people Katfish Kops
> or Rabbit Sheriffs, the wildlife biologists Science Fiction Writers, the
> old Predator and Rodent Control as Gopher Chokers or Rat Stranglers.
> It's a poor person that can't laugh at himself a time or two. Eugene
> Kridler, Squirm, Wa.