Most turkey hunters have heard
of using an owl call to locate gob-
blers before dawn. But, while hunt-
ing during the spring turkey season,
I let out a few yelps on my dia-
phragm call late one morning
before leaving the woods and got an
answer from a great horned owl
perched high up in a hemlock stand.
- DGP Edward J. Zindell, Wilkes-
Barre.
While assigned to a hunter educa-
tion camp in my district, one of the
group of students I was in charge of
asked me what was on the agenda
for the next day. I read off a list of
activities and their evening course
was on game law. One student’s
replay was, ‘“‘Game Law? What do
we have to know that for?” I told
him that it was better he didn’t
learn the hard way. - DGP Edward
J. Zindell, Wilkes-Barre.
My wife, a city person, learned
firsthand all about wildlife’s conflict
with humans. She’d been admiring
the small groundhogs that were
seen feeding in the yard near our
fenced garden and several times
stated how cute they were. Then,
one day she came home to find that
they had tunneled under the fence
and had eaten all the beans, half the
peas and all but two of the cabbage
plants during that morning’s attack.
Yes, [ got both barrels and was
ordered to get them out of here! -
DGP Robert W. Nolf, Conyngham.
My wife and I were recently
working in the garden when I heard
a familiar shriek overhead and
looked up to see a red winged
blackfoot courageously attacking a
cooper’s hawk which evidently was
clutching a nestling in her talons.
My wife asked, “How can they Kill
little birds?”’ I explained that preda-
tor birds and animals have their
young first and they prey on the
smaller birds and animals to feed
their young which is nature’s way of
population control. - DGP Robert W.
Nolf, Conyngham.
Don Fisher and George Oberst of
Sugarloaf had heard the bleating of
a fawn deer for two days and were
unable to find and assist it. Finally,
as they stood at the edge of the
woods, they heard it nearby again
and looked into the field toward a
woodchuck hole. Doubting it came
from there, they approached and
soon saw the top of the head and
ears sticking out of the groundhog
hole! It’s shoulder was caught on a
root, hair was rubbed off the head
and front legs had been rubbed and
cut. The men got picks and shovels
and rescued the fawn which was
very weak. They concluded that the
fawn must have gone in one end of
the hole, crawled through and got
caught on the root trying to get out.
Don had given the fawn milk and
called me. My wife and I did the
same, cleaned it up and took it to
the veterinarian for an area zoo and
when we left, the fawn was getting
lots of tender loving care and medi-
cal attention. I guess we will never
know what really happened but
whatever, he at least got a second
chance. - DPG Robert W. Nolf,
Conyngham.
By CHARLOT M. DENMON
Staff Correspondent
While the spotlight of success
draws attention to the Back Moun-
tain Baseball All Stars advancing in
competition, few fans realize the
work being done, quietly behind the
scenes by one volunteer - Frank
Joyce of Bunker Hill, Trucksville.
Joyce, president of Back Moun-
tain Baseball Inc., is in his second
year in office. Active in the organi-
zation for the past eight years, like
most of the volunteers, he has put in
a lot of time coaching. He first
coached the T-Ball Expos, then
later took over the coaching reins of
the Minor League Astros guiding
them to the championship in 1981.
This season he has been coaching
the Yankees and two of his players,
John Tinner and Chris Givens, are
on the All-Star Nationals team.
As president of the organization,
Joyce spends many hours of his
time involved in projects which
usually go unnoticed. He was instru-
mental in incorporating Back Moun-
tain Baseball. Last year, he initi-
ated the formulation of an auxiliary
and this year appointed a public
relations man, Robert Graver.
This year under his direction, the
organization took in seven year olds
into Teeners. Last year they also
took in Northwest in softball and
Harveys Lake Teeners boys team.
Joyce also spends hours on the
phone, trying to resolve problems,
aiding new volunteers and assigning
duties. He handles many of the
duties himself such as repairing a
microphone, working on the field,
team members and countless other
day-to-day chores.
This year, he worked at arranging
the program so more kids -could
play. The organization went to the
open draft in the Teeners Division
making more Kingston Township
boys eligible to play by assigning
them to some of the Dallas Teeners
teams.
At the beginning of the year he set
up the first coaches clinic which
was held at Lake-Lehman with
about 65 participants. There also
were umpire clinics which the orga-
nization hopes to have another one
next season.
Joyce also presided over the gen-
eral meetings every month and the
regular board meetings, the latter
of which were held bi-monthly from
February through May. April, he
said, was a busy month with sup-
plies and equipment needing to be
ordered, schedules to be set up and
registration completed.
This season was dedicated to the
Joyce became involved in the
Back Mountain organization
through his children, two sons and a
daughter. His daughter, Joan, now
16, played softball; his son, John,
played on the Teeners Yankees
team; and his younger son, Terr-
ance, plays on the Major League
Indians team.
Joyce, who is a service technician
for Bell Telephone, was also active
in Back Mountain Baseball of
approximately five years. He is
_ presently secretary of the Commu-
nication Workers of America and is
running for president of the CWA.
‘‘Baseball takes a tremendous
amount of time but I enjoy it,”’ said
Joyce. “From September through
Februrary, you get a chance to slow
down a little. ”
Nominations for next year’s offi-
cers will be held at the August
meeting and elections held in Sep-
tember.
“I have had excellent cooperation
from the volunteers,” said Joyce.
“Our commissioners did a great
job, they got a lot of work done.”
Modest as he might be, there is no
doubt Joyce has played an impor-
tant role in keeping the organization
running smoothly. The time and
effort he has put in shows in the
results.
This year the organization spent
hundreds of dollars in erecting a
new scoreboard at the field and
other capital renovations to better
the parking area and the field.
Joyce’s wife, Joan, also helps in
the stands and doing other behind-
the-scenes work necessary and per-
- her husband’s spending many hou
away from home working for the
benefit of Back Mountain youth.
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