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MONDAY. APRIL I. 1S63
German Shepherd
Guards Museum
In Los Angeles
By JOHN POWER
Los Angless - HOT - Mark,
r highly cultured canine with
a yen for art as ell as cats
and would-be thieves, is eel
ebrating the first anniversary
of his job as a museum guard
ing pooch.
Mark, a three-year-old Ger
man shepherd who rests dur
ing off-duty hours in a 12 by
7 foot kennel ad-acen; to the
Los Angeles County Museum.
has taken the past year in
cl ecung me praise
The Turkey Awakens
West in Venezuela To Investigate Junket Hardships of Congressmen
By DICK WEST
Caracas, Venezuela - (Qrl -Marcos
Perez Jimenez, Vene
z u e 1 a s unfrocked dictator,
may not have
been every
one's idea of a
model states
man, but I
will say one
thine for him,
He knew how
to think big.
Sh o r 1 1 y be
fore his con-
Wttt stituents de
cided it was time for a change,
Perez Jimenez erected near
this city two of the world's
most spectacular hotels, give ,
or take the wagon yard at
Merkel, Texas, my old home
town. One hotel - the Hum-1
boldt-he put on a mountain-1
top and the other-the Macuto
-he built by the sea.
They were architectural j
iriumpns ana nan every uuujj
that a luxury resort needs
with one minor exception.
The missing element was pay
ing customers.
In order to reach the Hum
boldt, a guest had to ride a
cable car up the mountain
side, scale a precipice that
would intimidate Sir Edmund
Hillary, or bring his own hel
icopter.
These were conditions
that the average tourist was
unwilling to meet, and the
Humboldt, after catering,
for a lima to amply rooms,
had to close. This was mora
than could be said for the
Macuto which was complet
ed in 1 958 at a cost estimat
ed from S30 million to S45
million and then didn't
open at all.
Last year, in an effort to
bring the turkey to life, the
Venezuelans marie a deal with
a U. S. hotel chain, the Shera
ton Corp.. to lake over the
management of the Macuto.
and this week, it is having its
formal opening, or reincarna
tion, as the Macuto-Sheraton.
To commemorate the event,
, the Sheratons have imported
i several planeloads of Yankee
celebrities and run-of-the-mill
freeloaders, which explains
the presence here of y'r
i h'mbr c'rr'sp'nd'nt.
1 came down from Wash
j ington. D.C.. to investigate
conditions that members of
the U. S. Congress must en
dure when they go on over
seas junkets. Venezuela is a
popular slopping place for
congressional travelers and
presumably some will be stay
ing at this hotel in the future.
In a sense, a hotel open
ing is likt tha thaktdown
cruise ol a new ship. Thost
of us now instilled in tha
Macuto Sharatan provide
tha management with a
chanca to break in tha staff
and work out any bugs in
tha lervlca bafora the pay
ing guesti arrive.
To that extent we are pio
neers and we feel a kinship
with Christopher Columbus
who sailed up Venezuela's Or
inoco river on his third voy
age to the Americas.
We are clearing a path, so
to speak.
Pioneering, of course,
brings certain privations. Just
this morning 1 heard Rod
Serling of televisions's "Twi
light Zone" say that the lob
ster thermidor he ordered
Thursday night was cold
when it reached his table.
But Serling displayed the
stiff upper lip that is typical
of our group. Standing on the
banks of one of the hotel's
four swimming pools he wav
ed toward the mountain and
thespa and said "it takes such
a little bit to make a man
happy."
To that I can only add
"bravo."
Sherwood Man Killed
By Accidental Gunshot
Hillsboro - aire - Eugene
Reed. 30, Sherwood, was ac
cidentally shot and killed Sat
urday, sheriff's officers re
ported. Deputies said he ap
parently was trying to eject
a shell from a ,22 caliber ri
fle when the gun discharged.
The bullet entered his chest
and he was dead on arrival
at a local hospital.
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stride.
showered on him by museum
officials.
For Mark is no run-of-the-mill
guard dog.
Successful
"Extremely successful" was
the term used by Leland T.
Pellant. the museum's chief
security office-, when icscrib
jng the progress made by the
first four-footed security of-1
ficer to pound a beat in an
American museum.
"We now consider him a ;
full-fledged member of the
force and the guards feel saf
er with Mark than another
security office," said Pellant.
At present, the sleek black
and tan dog is trained to work j
with four male handlers but
shortly will work with Mrs.
Dixie Allen, the museum's
only female security officer.
Dixie also is another first,
according to museum offi-
cials.
"Other museums have fe-
male guides but wc are the
nnlv museum staff to have a .
female security officer," said j I
Pellant.
Why a female guard?
The museum attracts about
1.5 million visitors a year
and. according lo Pellant,
about BO per cent of them
are women and children.
"We want Dixie, who i
works during visitors' hours,
to be able to work with Mark
should any emergency arise," '
said Pellant.
Mark now works at night
when the museum is closed.
He makes the rounds with 1
a fellow security officer on i
a learh.
Given Credit
Pellant credits Mark with j
two major accomplishments
during his first year at the
museum.
Although not on public
view during daylight hours,
the fact that a trained guard
dog is in the vicinity has cut
down on the petty larceny
that exists in any public
building. And he has made
the museum an unh thy
p'ace for visiting cats which
plagued the area before his
arrival.
The plan to use a dog as
part of the museum's secur
ity staff was the result of an
increasing number of art
thefts in this country and Eu
rope during the past few j
years.
Officials felt that the mu
cum, which has 203,600
square feet of space for ex-1
hlhlttan halls, galleries and
public areas as well as 83,-j I
000 square teci Demnu his )
Kisnea. could provide a place
for a potential thief to hide I
until the museum closed ana
then steal or damage.
Siskiyou Student
Award To Be Given
Ashland Fred Heard, Kla
math Falls, editor of the
Southern Oregon college
newspaper "The Siskiyou."
has announced that the Siski
you annual student award
dinner will be held in the
Mark Antony hotel. Ashland i
during the spring quarter, j
This has been planned as an
annual event.
To obtain the award those
selected must have demon
a eviUpnrp in at least
one of the following fields: II
clubs, student government, or
publications. The recipient
must be a senior or a gradu
ate student.
The Siskiyou Award Fac
ulty Selection committee is
composed of Dr. Clarence
Diebel. Dr. Alvin Fellers. Dr.
Marshall Woodell. Dr. Rich
ard Byrns. Douglas Legg. and
Hugh Simpson, chairman.
White Wafer Parade
Attracts About 20,000
Eugene - HOT - An estimat
ed 20.000 personr watched the
25th annual White Water
Boal Parade on the McKenzie
river Sunday.
Some 300 boats ran the rap
ids '-0 miles from Redsidcs to
the Lcaburs Reservoir.
A spokesman for McKenzie
river guides said there were
plenty of dunkings but no
serious injuries were reported.
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