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MEDFORD MAIL TRIBUNE. MEDFORD. OREGON MONDAY. JANUARY 21. 19(3 A 7 rtrnw Smell Worlds rvJ Around Us By lynn W. Watkins 'JMlUMr ft Trlbuni f yndluM, I9J) The Bick-Firing Skunk PUn Or Thtn There Were Three Sometimes you just can't win or losing. No matter how good a theory looks on paper or in principle, actual practice often proves it to be unwork able. This is especially true when dealing with those cunning little animals, the skunks. These characters are as un predictable as the weather. Of course, skunks are not dan gerous (there are no cases on record where one of them has willingly attacked a human being) but they have been known to scare people half to death for another reason. Take for example the woman who called. She said she had a skunk under her house and he had been there for a couple of days. The woman admitted there had been absolutely no de tectable odor, but the known presence of the animal under her floor was giving her nerves a terrible wringing. Another couple of days and she figured she would be a nervous wreck. The tension, she said, was terrific, like waiting for a bomb to go off. She didn't want the animal killed; she just wanted it to go away. Skunk 'Different' A skunk under a house is somewhat different from hav ing any other animal there. It calls for some thought and requires considerable doing. You can't just shoot the ani mal. You can't poke him or throw a net over him. You certainly can't send a dog in after him. You can't set a trap ... or you shouldn't if you wish to continue living in the neighborhood. One sure way would be to set fire to the house, which would be about as stupid as sinking a ship because there were rats in the hold. All these possibilities were considered, however, remem bering at the same time that the situation was delicate and had to be handled in a deli cate manner. There was a crawlway in the supporting wall, an open ing three feet wide that of fered entrance to the under side of the house. With the beam of a strong flashlight we explored the dark corners. Mr. Skunk was in one of the far corners. He was curled up in a tight little ball, obvious ly sound asleep. He never batted an eye while the per plexed humans began map ping a campaign; the skunk slept while t h e "master minds" were at work. A plan that looked pretty good was worked out. At least it was worth a try. "Drop a series of cookie chunks about a foot apart from the edee of the crawl way back into the back yard." the plan started, me skunk will eat the cookies, walk along the cookie line and find himself in the rear Jot. While he is eating the cookies, the opening in the wall can be closed. Follow the Plan The woman was apprecia tive; she said she would fol low the plan as soon as dark ness came over the earth and the skunk was ready to begin its nightly foraging. The "master minds" felt pretty good; they were smug ly confident. They felt they had solved another knotty problem and wanted the woman to call them later and report the success of the skunk ejection technique. Three days went by before the woman called. I ve fol lowed your suggestions to the letter," she said. "I put out the line of cookie chunks clear across the back yard and into the vacant lot half a block away." "How did it work?" smug ly asked one of the master minds. "Worked wonderful," re plied the woman with a pe culiar tone In her voice. In fact, I think it worked in re verse, because now I have three skunks under the house." Military Pay Boost Would Exclude Many Washington - WPP - Defense Secretary Robert S. McNanv ara's military pay raise pro posals, to be submitted to Con gress this week, will exclude more than two-thirds of the nation's one million civilian reservists. 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