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...Fisheries tries to save the Mississippi's stranded fish before the summer sun dries up the pools. Hauling up load after load of suffering fish, the rescuers return them to the main stream of the river or ship them away to stock special preserves. Black bass, pickerel pike, pike perch, white bass, yellow perch, crappies cannot stand crowding, bad water, must be rescued first. Buffalo fish, carp and catfish are toughest...
...herself, was deaf & dumb. Lon, the second of four normal children, left school at the age of nine to take care of her. He could make his mother understand him by contorting his face into significant expressions. At 13 he went to work as a guide to tourists on Pike's Peak. Later he was carpet-layer, stage hand, vaudevillist. He married his singing and dancing partner; their son is a lawyer in Hollywood...
...outside of Pike County, Miss., where it has some 2,500 subscribers, ever hear of the McComb Enterprise. Nor would many more recognize the name of John Oliver Emmerich, its editor. Last week the obscure weekly and Editor Emmerich were marked in bold letters on the journalistic map of the U. S., when the National Editorial Association, convened in Milwaukee, awarded the Enterprise its 1930 trophy for the rural newspaper rendering the outstanding community service of the year...
...Enterprise was credited with successful prosecution of nine major projects, and persistent and effective efforts in behalf of a score of other causes. But its magnum opus was the fencing off of Pike County, Miss, from Louisiana...
...years the County had spent more than $250,000 in eradicating the Texas fever tick which had blocked progress of livestock and dairy development. But cattle would ramble across the border from Louisiana (where no eradication measures were practiced) and re-infest Pike County stock as fast as they had been purged. The McComb Enterprise advocated the building of a double wire fence the length of the County line; was met by ridicule, hostility. It fought...