Word: wolfing
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Texas steer horn to his lips, blew long & loud. At this signal the hounds were loosed and, amid a great uproar of babbling dogs, roaring engines and shouting men, women & children, the whole assembly moved off into the brush. Thus began :he 1936 field trials of the South Texas Wolf Hunters Association, biggest "wolf hunt" in U. S. history...
When settlers from Kentucky, Tennessee and Missouri pushed down to Texas last century, they took their foxhounds with them. Looking around for choicer game than Texas' quickly grounded grey fox, the settlers found it in the wily, hard-running coyote or "Mexican Wolf." At first the new quarry proved too fast, too long-winded for their hounds. Huntsmen sent back to Kentucky for dogs of the famed Walker and Trigg stock, soon bred a hound which could more than match the coyote's speed and stamina...
With their dogs cooped in trailers behind sturdy automobiles, Texas wolf hunters gather at 2 or 3 a. m., motor far out into the brush. Best time to cast the hounds is just before daybreak, when the land is wet and the dogs, running with heads up. can catch the wolf's strong scent from the bushes. Loosed, the dogs spread out fanwise, baying when they catch the trail. Behind them ride the huntsmen, bouncing 'hell bent over rough prairie, plowed ground and fields of cotton stalks. The coyote may run for several hours, stray far afield...
Three years ago Rector William Casper Munds of the Church of the Good Shepherd invited Rabbi Sidney Wolf of Temple Bethel to join him in a union Thanksgiving service, with the Episcopal church decorated by its women's Guild and the Jewish Sisterhood of the Temple, Episcopalians and Jews acting as ushers, the day's offering to go to the needy of both congregations, and the sermon to be preached by the rabbi. His subject this week: "True Brotherly Love...
Corpus Christi's interfaith venture, probably unique in the U. S., owes much to the calibre of its brotherly shepherds. Rector Munds, 44, is president of the city's Community Chest, its Planning Commission, and chairman of the Boy Scouts. Rabbi Wolf, 30 next month, is a Rotarian, member of the Civic Music Association, chairman of the county Red Cross...