December, 1963 Number 12 utlook Iowa Deer Hunting 1963 Tom Ba llard >U are one of Iowa's 12,000 shotgun deer hunters, you had better your weapons there is a tecord crop of whitetails to be hunted • ason. pects are \'cry good for another record deer har\'est. Last win ~ ost-season deer count was 23 per cent abo\'e that of 1962 and 50 per cent greater than the a\'erage since 1958. means one thing to you deer hunters- an estimated 33,200 deer sue this month. That figure makes a bag limit of "one" dl•cr ~!mple and easy to fill doesn't it? But, let's not kid ourscl\'<'S tsive Iowa whitetail isn't that easy to put in our sights. L gun hunters have found dtiving or still huntmg and stands to 'ductive methods for taldng their hm1t. The bO\\hunlers, and :>hotgunners as well, have been usmg the tree stand to advantage. La~t Year Be.,t Yet '62 gun season \\'as the best yet wtth 4,281 licensed hunters tak . nison home. The total deer kill was 5 703; this includes deer : by all methods gun, bow. licensed hunter and landowner. 1 1962 hunter-success ratio is another encouraging figure : 52 • 1t for licensed farmers and 41 per cent for urban hunters. That's · ~ pretty close to a 50:50 chance for getting venison into the this winter. Considering the warm weather and lack of snow .!cember, Iowa deer hunters did very well. tty by county populat10n estimates are much the same as last xcepting the general inct ease in herd size. Forty-one counties • ted as having a high deer population and only a dozen arc rcla • low. Top Fin• Counti e~ counties contmue to have the top deer herds: Allamakcc, :>htek and Clayton to the northeast, with P ottawattamie and 1 a on our western border. A total of 1,044 deer were taken from ive counties by hunters last year, nearly 25 per cent of the total 11 the state. • \ I, comprising 25 counties in the northwest to north central ~ s limited to two days of hunting December 14-15. Two days' 111 g pressure 1s deemed necessary to avoid any possibility of over , tg t his area of limtted deer range. ~' II counties will be open the 14th, 15th and 16th Nearly onc r >f the whitetails taken m 1962 were bagged on the third day, c t put that shotgun away Sunday evening, that old monarch \a,;ttll ' •phy rack may come strolling past your stand Monday. Di.,ea!>e tudy Itl Joperation wtth the Conservation Commtssion, the I owa Veteri t l edical Associat10n and the Cooperative Wildlife Research Unit ·king for the deer hunter's help in attempting a study of deer bl s. All you need do is drop the deer heart in the plastic bag that ~ ·ovided with your license, fill out the enclosed tag, tie the bag tll1e tag and take it to the nearest veterinarian withm 24 hour:-. I do the rest. Research, management, and hunter cooperation " een among the essenttals in achieving our past ten successful 11 •asons. ~ t ~orget to send in those report cards. They provtde valua.blc . a t10n that is used in the management programs for hunlmg h!<l, i to come. According to the 1962 report cards, 38.8 hours of ll.!u~ ~ were required for each deer bagged, the average hunter saw t '( deer during the season, and a slightly higher percentage of ~J ". killed their deer in the morning. h • ~ nng or evening, first day or third, Iowa deer hunters should I ' nother record-breaking deer season this month. Jim Shennan Photo, IOWA CONSERVATIONIST Pogo 90 1 w C bench and nve islands to be con Cooperate with Hunters a 0 n s e r vat; 0 n; s t 0 No December 1963 12 stntctcd. I• r om tlw 1()\Ht F a rm Burf>au ~pok t>.., m a n Vol . 22 J\ ppro\'OI was gn•en for t hl• rc J I Publ'\h d monthly bv tht' Stl'lte Conservoti.,'l "l'lwasant huntmg Sl 1son ,.,tarts on ~o,embet 9 and th1s pro\ lcasl' ol an l'aSPmenl on a lot Co'Tl'TIIssion E>~st 7th and Court Avenue. Des an exct>llent opporlumty to promote better relationships wtlh Mo l't'S low11 Address oil rr o I (s\Jbscriptions, on Blnl'lt Hnwlt Lake in Sac chonq of odd<ess, Form 3579 rnonuscripts, t County. urban cousins. rrc1 I tt'ms) •o street oddress obove. "If responsible huntl•rs ask permission to hunt on your lands t Subsc.r pt'o'l price: two veors at $1.00 Thl• Commission authorized s(' ond c oss postoge poid ot tht'm this opportunity 1f at all possible. If you'll cooperate wtth th De\ Moines, lowo fl'IH'lllg to hl' plaC'ed around the (No Rights Reserved) COJH'l'l'tc c·l'ipplcd d1ildn•n's tt·ail tht \ II worl< with you. 'S\11 e, there arc smm• citv hunters who violate the rules of g HAROLD E HUGHES Governor l<watl•d in l\lat•go Frankt•l \\'oods E B. SPEAKER, Director spot tsmanship. But you don't want to be judged as a farmer by JAMES R SHERM AN , Editor Slate Pari<. actions of a few irresponsible rural residents. Therefore. don't l.lt DENNIS L. REHDER. Monag'ng Editor Camping fl•cs of .. U)O for im TOM BALLARD CAR"' BUCKMAN"l all hunters by the actions of a few. JACK K P E N C b nq Ed t prm'l'<l eamp grounds on twenty "Il n11ght be an Pxtra bother for vou to allow some hunters to '' MEMBERS OF THE COMMISSION six stall' pa rl<s wne estn hlishcd, eli on through the corn fields. But it you'll show the extra effort. the hun EARL E CIAR /I', CI>.J 'l N' beginning Apnl 1 1!161 with other SHERRY R. !=I::>HER, \ C:Jaorm~n- will thmk more highly of you as an individual and farmers as a g101 .Des Mo nt'S areas to C'hargl' 1s before. Cabin SpokuwHm ROBERT E BEEBE ... .. - Sio~.ox City This recent editorial in the points up the long-term tJ N. K KINNEY ldo Grove rates at Pitw Lakl' were estab toward good hunter-landowner relatwnships in Iowa. 1-fore and rr LAURENCE N NELSON Bellevue lished n t ~a5 . 00 a week and a ED WEINHEI MER . Greenfield 10\\.'IWS arc coming to realize that the farmer and the sport~man MIKE F. ZACK Meso'l C tv pricc of 25 C'l•nts a bundle was not in opposition. In tact, we count a great many farmers among CIRCULATION THIS ISSUE 52 ,000 l'Stuhlbhed for lin•woocl to be sold most enthusiastic hunters. Although not required by law, many f m st Ill p. rk!-. COMMISSION ers purcha:;e a hunting licen:;e each year. "I know I don't nel ( Ol Y l \ ( 0" " ' H \ ATIO~ license on my own lund," said one farmer during the recent phe MINUTES \ ( 1 n 1'1 n " opening-, "but, utter all, buying a license is just a part of huntmg \ Grundy C• n y received apprO\' me I always hn \'E.' one." D t•.., ' l oine'> nl for th<:> tu•quisttion of th·e acres It 1s mdCl'll commonplace in Iowa to find the farmer and the " OH ' lllbt'r .), 1963 ot land hy 2!)-yc_>al' lt·a~P at an man one and the same. F l ...., H .AXD GA'lE annual C'Ost of .. 1n pc_>r year called Appro\al \\as gi\'en to initiate the Com ad QUIUTY wh1ch will in acres of land suhjeC'l to thl' ap Animal Superstitio1 clude a one ncn• Jake to be used proval ot tht E ·ecutt\'e Council. condemnation proceedings on a BEAR ten-acre area of the ::vliami Lake for tishing with pil'nicking facili <·L"hH \ L Ever heard of a beat hug" stte in Monroe County. til'.S. The Commt swn 1 ppoin tPd six ular fiction has it that whr The Chief Fish and Game ga \'e Linn County rl'cci\'ccl appro\'al spcdal pohCl' ofliccn; from the bear attacks. it first seizes ill> a report on lhe status of Triboji fm· tlw :H•qutsilion of 162 acres ot tl ~taft and fmu· SJH'Cial police offi tim and squeezes him to death Beach on West Okoboji Lake. land at a total cost of ::;18,750, cei'S among Uw walct safely pa- a "bear hug," then devours The Comm1ssion met wilh Har located on the C'<>clat' Ri\·er one trol. But there is no evidencE' to old Kastor of Clear Lake to dis mile downstream from the l\ an Tra vl' l was a ppl'Ovecl for var- pol'l this at all. Bears ktll cuss lhe law concerning trappin~ hoe Bricl~c on Stale Highway ~o their front paws aided by r in muskrat houses and clarify an 1. This ar<'<l to he used fot boat ious stall members and commis sioners to Fergus l<,alls, Minne- and teeth. (A beat· is Jmo\\ Attorney General's opinion con launching, ri\·cr aecess, fishing. sot a: Pipestone, ~linnesota: a break the neck of a bison hull cerning such llapping picnicking, campin~ . nature study and hunlin~ . forestry meeting at Indianapolis. a single blow.) LA-..;O.
Cultural Commentary: Affectional Preference on Film: Giggle and Lib Joseph J
Bridgewater Review Volume 1 | Issue 2 Article 9 Dec-1982 Cultural Commentary: Affectional Preference on Film: Giggle and Lib Joseph J. Liggera Bridgewater State College Recommended Citation Liggera, Joseph J. (1982). Cultural Commentary: Affectional Preference on Film: Giggle and Lib. Bridgewater Review, 1(2), 21-22. Available at: http://vc.bridgew.edu/br_rev/vol1/iss2/9 This item is available as part of Virtual Commons, the open-access institutional repository of Bridgewater State University, Bridgewater, Massachusetts. CULTURAL COMMENTARY Affectional Preference on Film: Giggle and Lib omantic attachments on screen the romantic man whose passionate desire With the great artist abandoning R these days require at least a hint of is for a person unquestionably of the romantic love--Bergman has lately something kinky to draw the pop audience opposite sex. So straight are his lusts that announced that his next two films will be his which in the days of yesteryear thrilled to no one seemed to notice the dilemma posed last--leaving the field to an oddity like Allen Bogart and Bacall, but which now winks in Manhattan of a man in his mid-forties or television's "Love Boat", the pop knowingly at Julie Andrews in drag. having physical congress with a fifteen year audience, which never warmed to Bergman Something equally aberrant, in fact moreso, old. This year, A -Midsummer Night's Sex or his like anyway, might find solace in Blake more blatant and proselytizing, quickens Comedy renders two points of sexual Edwards, an intriguing director whose last the mental loins of the liberal film-going metaphysics for those still lost in memories three films and his wife's, Julie Andrews, mind; anything less denies the backbone of a gender-differentiated past, the first changing image in them illustrate a syn upon which liberal sentiments are oddly enough insisted upon by the women: if thesis of audience demands with a structured.