20 • Aug. 29 - Sept. 11, 2014 • The Log Crossword Puzzle


25. 28. 31. 34. 35. 36. 37. 38.


Bloated Copious


___ deferens ___ fruit


Point maker ___ Khan


Caribbean, e.g. Hullabaloos


39. Do it yourself 40.


Atlanta-based station


41. Exercise of reason 42. A long, long time 43. His “4” was retired 44. Gets licked 45. Florida’s Key ___ 46. Black, in poetry 48. Give off, as light 50. 54.


Nonsense California county


58. Any simple, single-cell organism 59. Australian arboreal marsupial (2 wds)


61. Round mass


62. “___ and the King of Siam” 63. Dolly ___ of “Hello, Dolly!” 64. Black stone 65.


Calendar span


66. “Our Time in ___” (10,000 Maniacs album)


Across


1. “Not on ___!” (“No way!”) (2 wds) 5.


Dilute 9. ___ Verde National Park


13. Hop, skip or jump 14.


Bit News Briefs From page 4


the county’s Ocean Springs Harbor. The Sun Herald reports Jalanivich has been on the Harbor Commission for about five years. County Administrator Brian Fulton says he was the candidate with the best knowledge of the harbor. Jalanivich is a contractor and built the Harbor Landing boat shed at the harbor. The county human resources depart-


ment says five candidates were inter- viewed.


Shark nicknamed ‘Old Hitler’ is legend on Gulf


BOCA GRANDE, Fla. (AP) — For decades, legendary hammerhead Old Hitler has been the subject of fishing folklore up and down the southern coast of the Gulf of Mexico. Depending on the source, Old Hitler has a head as wide as a pickup truck, and is longer than most of the fishing boats it’s been spotted from. The hammerhead is big enough to


swallow other sharks in a single bite, and strong enough to drag a Jeep from the shoreline by its bumper-mounted winch. His massive body is covered in scars


from encounters with fishermen’s machetes, harpoons and boat propellers. Even though the legend has evolved


over the last century, what always remains constant Old Hitler is the biggest, meanest shark to ever roam the waters from Everglades City to Tampa Bay. The mighty shark has been the subject


15. Using the soft palate 16. Silo-preserved fodder (pl) 18. Lift to heaven with praise 19. 20. 22. 24.


Winder


Principal sail “Terrible” czar “Agreed!”


of numerous newspaper headlines and documentaries over the years. It has been immortalized in art and song. Stories of close encounters have been told around bait buckets for generations, passed down from father to son like heroic war stories. The fabled fish even got its own prime- time slot in this year’s Shark Week marathon on the Discovery Channel, in its 27th year of celebrating the ocean’s apex predators.


Although tales of massive hammer-


heads have been common up and down the coast since the turn of the 20th centu- ry, it wasn’t until World War II that those tales took on near-mythical proportions. As the war efforts ramped up, German


U-boats invaded American water, waging an all-out assault on any and all marine vessels. To combat the invasion, the United States Coast Guard and Navy deployed dirigible blimps to patrol the coast. Merchant mariners and supply vessels, paranoid from the attacks, reported sight- ings of unidentified watercraft cruising around the major shipping ports. Many of those sightings were attributed to giant hammerhead sharks cruising along the surface. As commercial fishing became one of the major local industries after the war, encounters with great hammerheads became more and more frequent. When Tampa Bay became the dominant ship- ping port in Florida, the shark’s legend fol- lowed north where it became bigger than ever. Tales of a 20-foot hammerhead circu- lated. The supposed shark was as dark as a


Down 1.


6. 7. 8. 9.


1 2.


Monopolize Any thing


Astronaut’s insignia Bright circle?


10. Central American country 11. “The Open Window” writer ___ halide


15. Decorative overlays 17. Impose, as a tax 21. Goof-offs


2 3. Mothers of pearl 25.


Enthusiasm


26. Bond, for one 27. 29. 30.


Slovenly


Bullwinkle, e.g. Commendation


32. Getting on 33. 35. 38.


Approval


Eating utensils Removes cargo


42. Fit to be taken in 45. 47. 49. 50. 51.


100 kurus Boyfriends Back biter


Shield knob “High” time


52. “Comme ci, comme ca” 53. ___ of the above 55.


Call for


56. “I ___ at the office” 57.


“___ Brockovich” 6 0. Affirm


2. The “B” of N.B. 3.


European language


4. Capital of the country Georgia 5. Beauty pageant wear


shadow and covered in scars. There was a notch in its dorsal fin, a result of a run-in with a commercial mullet fisherman off the coast of Useppa Island in the early 1960s. The fisherman struck the shark with a machete after it mauled a net full of fish and began bumping the 15-foot vessel. The shark swam away with the large knife still embedded in its dorsal fin. There was a swastika-shaped scar on


its forehead, a result of either a propeller scar or the carvings of some wayward local youth, depending on the source. It was just one of many battle scars that cov- ered its dark brown skin. Johns Knight Jr., a Boca Grande histori-


an, remembers one specific giant ham- merhead that was seen year after year in the pass that had the head of a harpoon spear protruding from its back. According to Knight, whose family has


lived in Boca Grande since the early 1900s, the legend took off because of a school project done by him, his brother and a family friend, Harlan Wilbur, in 1968. Wilbur had heard numerous tales of giant sharks from his father, who worked on the old phosphate docks. The boys collected all the fish tales of Boca Grande sharks into a single story. Like many a great folk tales, this fantas-


tic fish story is rooted in fact. The great hammerhead is the biggest of the hammerhead species — with its flattened mallet-shaped head — found locally. They routinely grow to mammoth proportions, reaching 20 feet in length and can easily weigh more than 1,000 pounds.


Solutions on page 34


“___ Ng” (They Might Be Giants song)


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Fishermen always claimed the shark was bigger than their boat, no matter how big of a vessel they had. Since a 20-foot hammerhead shark is a biological reality, a 25-footer was within the realm of possibil- ity for the storyteller. It became meaner and more brazen,


often attacking a boat’s propellers unpro- voked. Many fishermen claimed to be lucky to be alive after the encounter. And even though the frequency of the sight- ings increased, no one ever managed to catch the beast, which only perpetuated the myth. “It has been harpooned, shot at, and has been on any number of fishing lines,” Brian Martel told Bob Bender of the St. Petersburg Times in a June 21, 1976, article.


Ga. vets treating sea turtle bit- ten by shark


SAVANNAH, Ga. (AP) — Veterinarians on the Georgia coast are treating a 190- pound sea turtle found on an island beach suffering from a shark bite. The Savannah Morning News reports


the injured loggerhead sea turtle was found by a group taking a weekend tour of Ossabaw Island. John Crawford, a natu- ralist and one of the group’s guides, says the bite took a chunk out of the turtle’s shell behind its right front leg. The visitors helped hoist the large tur-


tle onto an all-terrain vehicle for a ride to the nearest boat dock, where state Department of Natural Resources staffers met them to take the turtle to the Georgia Sea Turtle Center on Jekyll Island.


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