Small Worlds
Around Us
By LYNN M. WATKINS
(Register end Tribune
Syndicate, 1963)
j'Pied Piper' Had tolulion
; But Someone Smelled Rat
' The outcome was consider
rably less than hoped tor. At
:tirst it ioohi'd like a really
good solution.
The butcher had a problem,
! a serious one. His shop was in
a very old, wooden building
over a large basement, tne
cellar was a catch-all; it was
cluttered with barrels, boxes,
old lumbcr.tubs and a wild
assortment of odds and ends.
It was a mess.
. In the clutter lived an army
of rats. Rat population, like
i the population ol any animal
: including man himself, is con
trolled by food supply and
Shelter. Here in the butcher
shop ample supplies of food
were availiblc.
A visit to the basement was
:aii experience. Rats were
: everywhere. They dashed
. along the rafters and climbed
:the walls. A flashlight beam
thrown into any corner
;revealcd one or more pairs
of green, glowing rat-eyes.
They pecked out from every
corner and crevice.
The butcher tried traps
with less than mild success.
There was too much food; the
rats were too wise and too
well satisfied to be templed
by any trap with man-smell.
The butcher had just about
given up. He resigned himself
to doing business in a place
where there were several
times more hats than there
were customers. The press of
the rat explosion became so
bad that some of the animals
howcd up in the daytime.
Some even dashed between
the man's feet as he was
cutting meat at the block.
Constantly the man could
hear the squealing, rustling,
fighting and scurrying in the
basement below him.
Then one day a Pied Piper
showed up at the hop. He had
heard the man complain about
his unwelcome guests and he
had a plan. For a nominal fee
he thought he could reduce
the rat population. The des
perate butcher had nothing to
lose and much to gain, so he
, agreed.
The plan was made and the
bailie joined. The "expert"
showed tip the folowing after
noon with a .22 caliber rifle,
a flashlight and a pillow . . .
The tools with which he was
about to work on the rat-
eradication program.
The pillow he placed on the
fifth step down from the eel
lar door. He placed himself
on the pillow, attached the
flashlight to his hat and load
ed and cocked the rifle. The
enemy was there and the bat
tle began.
A faint rustic sounded In
far corner. The flashlight
beam reflected greenly on a
pair of rat eyes. The rifle
cracked; a dull thud sounded
as a furred body struck the
floor. The butcher in the
store overhead nodded grim
ly. One down and many more
to go.
He continued to count the
reports. By day's end the
game was counted. By week's
end 30-odd rats had been kill
ed; it had been a pretty suc
cessful hunt. The man collect
ed his fee.
The butcher was happy, but
his joy was of brief duration.
A few days later when he
opened the shop, a terrible
stench greeted him. The air
was heavy with a sickening,
overpowering odor - the odor
of dead rats. Those animals
which had been wounded had
crawled into crevices. In be
tween the walls and In the
boxes and barrels, and there
they had died.
Daily the smell became
worse. The stench was beyond
endurance. Unable to eradi
cate the odor the butcher was
forced ,to close his shop until
that indefinite time when the
air would again be tolerable.
The butcher, or someone bo
fore him who had a similar
experience, must have been
the one who truthfully said,
"I smell a rat."
Year-Old Baby Gets
New Year's Playmate
Albuquerque, N.M. - IUPII -Catherine
Rupp of Albuquer
que was one year old today.
She was the first baby born
here in 10(12.
At 1 a.m. this morning, her
mother, Mrs. Connie Rupp,
20, presented Catherine wiih
a baby sister, (he first baby
born here in 11)63.
Father of the family is War
ren Rupp, 23, a research tech
nician at Lovelace Clinic here.
Medlord Doctor
Provides Material
For Health Paper
The case histories and ex
perimental research of a Med
ford naturopathic physician,
Dr. Ralph R. Weiss, will help
provide the scientific frame
work for a discussion on hu
man health scheduled for de
livery to delegates to the Na
tional Health Federation this
week.
Cooperation of Dr. Weiss
in preparation of the talk was
enlisted by Dr. John Noble,
president of both the national
and Oregon state associations
of naturopathic physicians.
Dr. Noble will be a fea
tured speaker at the 1963
convention of the National
Health Federation Jan. 2 to
S at Long Beach, Calif.
Dr. Noble is slated to ad
dress the evening session of
the convention Jr.n. 3 with
a talk on the "Problems of
Naturopathy in Today's Fast-
Moving World." He will out
line the basic principles of
naturopathy and explain the
six-year educational require
ments demanded of a naturo'
pathic physician before he is
admitted to practice.
Other speakers at !'. four-
day convention include Pam
ela Mason, movie and tele
vision personality; Dr. .'loyal
Lee, founder of the Lee
Foundation for Nutritional
Research In Milwaukee, Wis
consin; and noted Washington
attorney, Charles Orlando
Pratt, who for many years
was legal adviser to the fed
eral food and drug adminis
tration. The National Health Fed
eration, established as a non
profit corporation eight years
ago to work for rigid stand
ards of food inspection and
strict enforcement of pure
food laws, Is recognized as
the largest and most influ
ential "grass roots" health
organization in America. It
maintains one of the most
elaborately-staffed lobbies in
the national capital.
The federation was credited
recently by Peter Edson, col
umnist for the Washington
Daily News, with successfully
engecring through Congress
two important amendments to
federal legislation in 1962:
one requiring consent of pa
tients before they arc given
experimental drugs; the other,
to make mass vaccination voluntary.
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MEDFORD, OREGON, TUESDAY, JANUARY 1. 1G63
Identity of Burglar
Learned by Supervisor
Mineoia, N.Y.-iUFlt-For a year, the "Ice cream burglar
successfully looted one store after another of a Long Island
dairy chain.
Thomas Giery, a supervisor for the firm known as Dairy
Barn, wondered along with other company employees how
the thief was able to get into the stores without breaking
a window, and open the safe without damaging it.
Sunday Giery found out who was pulling the jobs which
netted a total of $3,000.
The culprit was his wife, police said. Mrs. Betty Jean
Giery, 34, was spotted inside one of the parlors early Sun
day and arrested.
Mrs. Giery wept as she told police how she took her
husband's keys once a month while he was asleep, and picked
one of the stores to rob. In each of the places she knew
where the safe combination was hidden, and the rest was
easy. She even maae tne cao driver wait outside.
Mrs. Giery said she needed the money to pay for an op
eration for a four-month-old daughter with a heart defect,
and for her seven other children.
She was held in $1,000 bail on burglary charges.
Four Kinds of Pears
Included in Plan
The U, S. department of
agriculture's offer to pur
chase "a significant quantity"
of winter pears for school and
institutional use will apply
to Cornice, Bosc, D'Anjous
and Winter Nellis in the
Rogue valley, according to lo
cal fruit growers.
The inclusion of California,
Oregon and Washington win
ter pears in the federal school
lunch program is the result
of work done by Sen. Wayne
R. Morse (D-Ore.) and follows
a recent conference arranged
by him between Pacific coast
fruit growers' representatives
and USDA officials. Raymond
Retcr, of Rctor Fruit compa
ny, Medford, attended.
In a recent letter to" Morse,
Reter asked him to urge
USDA officials to expedite
the program since fruit ship
pers have no French or Ger
man export outlets this year
because of trade restrictions.
Money for the school lunch
program comes from part of
the tariff received on agricul
tural imports. The Commodi
ty Credit corporation allocates
the money and any unused
portion reverts back to the
fund for future federal agri
cultural purchases.
DO IT THE HARD WAY
Chicago -(UPII- Chicago po
lice said Monday that would
be safecrackers at a business
place here used an electric
drill, a sledge hammer, a
screwdriver and a can opener,
but were unsuccessful. Wil
lard Bickford, owner of a
doughnut plant where the
safe was located, said, "It
wasn't locked, and there was
a slip of paper bearing the
combination on top of the
safe."
Instant Folk Music
Attempt To Trim Beard Forces West
To Chanae Subiect for Interview
L'i M I
By DICK WEST
Washington - (UPIi - A tragic
thing happened to me on my
way to interview Peter, Paul
and Mary. I
lost my beard.
P. P. Si M., as
you may
f I know, are '"c
I 1 sinKcrs- Two
of them - I
forget which
two -wear
beards. I have
heard it said
Weit that beards
are good for the voice. At any
rate, they began playing an
engagement here about the
time that I began sprouting a
beard of my own. I had an
appointment with them and
I was naturally self-conscious
about exhibiting my beard in
the presence of a pair of, shall
we say, "mature" beards.
In desperation, I tried to
trim it before it was ready
for trimming. As a result, I
got it out of balance. It listed
to port, so that my face ap
peared to have been built on
the bias.
A lopsided beard, I dis
covered, is like a lame
horse. There it nothing you
can do but put it out of its
misery. Pity.
I had intended to discuss
beard growing with Peter,
Paul and Mary, but the mis
hap forced me to switch
topics. We talked about folk
singing instead.
The rise of folk singing in
America is one of the phe
nomena of our time. The way
things are going there will
soon be more folk singers
than there are folks.
Most of the professionals in
the field are practitioners of
what I would call "instant
folk music." By that I mean
that they don't wait around
for folks to produce folk
music. They write their own.
Peter; Paul and Mary are
among the rising stars of the
do-it-yourself folk circuit in
Greenwich Village, tr folksy
sort of neighborhood in New
York City.
Now they are reaping
royalties from a hit record
and have moved up to folk
centers that serve some
thing stronger than coffee.
For Christmas they gave
each other original art
works, which shows what
can happen when you get
folk music away from the
folks.
All of this popularity and
commercial success does not
fit my concept of what a folk
singer is.
I can remember when a
folk singer was anyone who
knew all 47 verses of "John
Henry." He sang mostly lor
his own amusement, largely
because nobody wanted to
hear 47 verses of "John
Henry."
Peter, Paul and Mary in
sist, however, that their style
of folk singing, in its way, is
as . authentic as the more
primitive form.
They may be right. The fu
ture of folk singing can per
haps be foreseen in the fact
that Peter, Paul and Mary,
two-thirds of whom play gui
tars, have hired a bass player
to augment their act.
I predict it is only a ques
tion of time before folk sing
ers will be accompanied by
their own symphony orchestras.
London - fUPU - The London
Daily Mirror named Presi
dent Kennedy Its "Man of the
Year" Monday because of his
"leadership of his own coun
try and the Western alliance."
The newspaper said Kennedy
came into the presidency "like
a lamb" and has seen 1962 out
"like a lion."
Fred Sears Receives
Company's Award
Fred Sears, Medford agent
for Prudential Insurance com
pany, was presented the Most
Valuable Associate award for
1962.
Announcement of the pre
sentation was made in a tele
gram to Gene Williams, presi
dent of the Rogue Valley As
sociation of Life Under
writers. Sears, in competition with
32 fellow agents in the Eugene
office, was winner of tha
award on the basis of produc
tion of quality life insuranco
sales during 1962. Paul Jag
garian, manager of the Eu
gene office for Prudential,
made the announcement and
the presentation.
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California points.
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Ice Contributes to
Accidents in Area
Icy highways shrouded with
fog contributed to New Year's
Eve accidents, state police re
ported. A rear end collision occur
red on the Jacksonville high
way at Reager st. at the west
edge of Medford when a car
driven by Dan Preston Tur
pin, 16, of 1604 West Main
St., was involved in an acci
dent with a car driven by
Rcgina Clara Dixon, 61, route
1, box 11, Jacksonville. No
injuries were reported.
An accident occurred on
Highway 99 at the south edge
of Central Point when a car
driven by Michael Joseph
Tungate, 23, of 932 South Ivy
St., was involved in an acci
dent with a car driven by Dec
Clinton Thames, 36, of 2760
Connell ave. No injuries were
reported.
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