COPY OF NEWSPAPER ARTICLE             (Speech made Oct. 8 or 9, 1946)

    Minneapolis Star Outdoor Editor 
    Jack Connor 
 
           HUNTERS' FETE FUND    NEARS $25,000   GOAL 
 
 
     Another Star - Ducks Unlimited Hunters' party, greatest of them all,
has passed 
into history and the huge Lake Minnesota duck breeding project was more than
$6,000 
nearer its goal today. 
 
     Nearly 10,000 sportsmen and women jammed the Auditorium Tuesday night
for the 
big affair, and as a result there now is approximately $19,000 available
for the 
$25,000 Lake Minnesota. 
 
     Happiest person at the party was Mrs. Robert Oman of Chicago, whose
policeman 
husband was born and raised in Cambridge, Minn. She was awarded the Sports
Afield 
grand prize of an all-expense paid duck and goose hunting trip to Lake Manitoba.

Mr. Oman will take the trip. 
 
     Arthur M. Barley of New York, United States manager of Ducks Unlimited,
prin- 
cipal speaker, paid high tribute to Minnesota. He said it not only is the
top 
duck hunting state of the union, but also continfaes to be one of the top
contrib- 
utors to the Bucks Unlimited program. 
 
     That program, he added, has accomplished about one-third of its objective

with 1,000,000 acres of water area developed now as duck breeding grounds
in Canada. 
Awaiting development are 2,000,000 acres more. This year 10 new breeding
grounds 
projects were completed and seven more are under construction. 
 
     "The Minneapolis Star should feel complimented on the success of
this big 
affair," Bartley continued, "particularly by the knowledge that
many newspapers in 
other states now have adopted the hunters' party idea along lines originated
here." 
 
     Stage, screen and radio stars combined to provide an entertainment program

described as the beat of the three hunters' parties sponsored by The Star.
Head- 
lining the program were the Three Madcaps, nationally famous comedians. 
 
     Paramount Pictures contributed a Grantland Rice Sportlight titled "The
Game 
Bag" and both the Champion Outboard quartet and The Star and The Tribune
Girls' 
Chorus provided musical numbers. Randy Merriman, radio announcer, emceed
the spark- 
ling show. 
 
     Charles Johnson, executive sports editor of The Star and The Tribune,
opened 
the ceremonies by introducing outdoor writers for those newspapers. Conserva-

tion Commissioner Chester Wilson and Game and Fish Director Frank Blair extended

brief greetings. 
 
     Officials of statewide, sectional and local conservation groups, who
had 
attended a Tribune-sponsored conservation clinic at the Curtis hotel earlier
in 
the day, assisted in the awarding of prizes after the entertainment. 
 
     Among these were Dr. George Spielman, Mandan, N. D., state Ducks Unlimited

trustee; Dr. L. V. Hartle, Worthington; Al Niss, Fairmont; Buck Hedman, Grand
Rapids; 
Cap Nelson, Roseau; Dr. Ed Bratrude, Thief River Falls; Bill Jahns, St. Cloud;