Dogs on Rampage
Kill 25 Chickens
Stray dogs had a field day at the
Baptist Mission when they entered
the fenced chicken yard there and
destroyed some twenty-five chick
ens.
The decapitated bodies of chick
ens were strewn over the 200 by
80 foot enclosure and were found
by Walter Cohen Monday morning
huddled in depressions in the
grass, and under anything they
could find for protection. Some
had their backs torn open. Some
had been bitten through the backs
but still lived. Their breathing
cmae up through the holes in their
backs.
Feathers littered the ground
everywhere. The lone rooster in
the flock lost all of his <11 feath
ers but one. It was a scene of utter
destruction as if an army had at
tacked a village in wartime. The
sixty hens that once furnished
eggs for the Mission children and
the staff are now reduced to thirty
five. “The loss could have been
greater,” was the hopeful way Sup
erintendent Stone looked upon the
incident.
The hens usually produce 10,000
eggs each year, which, according
to Stone, is not sufficient for the
Mission needs. But does aid great
ly in furnishing this much needed
food to the children. The ironical
phase of the incident is that the
hens were just beginning to pro
duce again, after a lay-off period
which had extended from late Oc
tober to the present time. “The
greatest loss is the potential egg
production from two dozeti hens,”
according to Bill Stone.
Entrance to the chicken yard
was evidently from the back fence
where a hole was discovered under
the wire. There is l^tle doubt that
more than one dog was involved.
A search in the woods back of the
Mission showed evidence that the
predators had been along a trail
back of Potato Patch Lake as both
chicken feathers and duck feathers
were found. Furthermore, six
ducks have been lost in the past
two weeks and a portion of the
breast feathers from one of the
ducks was found.
The ducks were aided consider
ably by the fact that lights are
left on all night in the chicken
house, which stands in the center
of the yard.
NAVAL STATION YOUTH WINS
EXPERT RIFLEMAN MEDAL
Washington, D. C.,—The Expert
Rifleman Medal, second highest
award in American Junior shoot
ing has been won by John N. Brid
gens, 12, the National Rifle Assoc
iation announced here recently.
Shooting several hundred tar
gets in the last few months, the
new expert marksman fired his
way through 13 lower NRA quali
fications to achieve his new high
rating. With one more set of tar
gets to fire the new expert will up
his rating to Distinguished Rifle
man, the select top rating for the
junior shooters of the nation.
The new junior expert attends
Kodiak Naval Station School and
is a member of the Eagle Eye Ju
nior Rifle Club.
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