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PAGE 4, THE HERALD, Tuesday, September 13. 1977

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Sexism on the
baseball diamond

We hate criticizing community groups that are livening
up the town, but we can’t Jet this one go by.

This weekend's softball tourney ended in presentations of
awards for various achievements. Every team got one.
Good idea? Sure, we loved it.

The inscriptions on the plaques were supposed to be
funny, and most of them were.

But we take exception to a few inscriptions: “team with
the girls with the best parts’’, ‘team with the girl that puts
out the most’, “team with the best legs” and “best-built

m’”'

We don’t think they're very funny.and the women on the
teams probably didn't either, though they won’t say
anything becuase they're ‘‘used to it”.

Sammy. Davis Jr. made the same point about Negro
jokes, which he hated, even though they were supposed to
be funny too. Every joke enforces stereotypes, he said, and
even the genuinely funny jokes, teld only for their humor,
damaged the civil rights movement. ’

Just like every sexist plaques inscription enforces female
stereotypes. Women are good for more than “putting out’,
having ‘‘the best parts” or “the best legs”. Judging for
thier fielding in the final game of the tourney they were just

and sometimes better than the men.

-But snide comments inscribed on awards will only
discourage other women from breaking out of their stereo
types and trying out for beer-league baseball tedms.

Organizers and players in such fun-tournaments should
do their best to welcome women onto the field - their
presence rids the games of do-or-die competition and makes
a sporting event a light-hearted affair where winning isn’t
the only object.

Urban fishermen

Interpreting the News

. WHITE TO BLACK RULE

\

UN. cold on Rhodesia transition

UNITED NATIONS (CP)- A
proposal that a UN peace force he
stationed in Rhodesia during the
transition from white to black rule
has drawn little enthusiasm in the
United Nations. ‘

A peace force for Rhodesia is one.

of the key elements in the latest

British-American settlement plan.
’ designed to move the white-ruled

breakaway British colony to black-
majority rule by the end of 1978.

The proposition has not yet been.

officially placed before the UN but
U.S. Ambassador Andrew Young,
who joined British Foreign
Secretary David Owen in presenting
the plan to the Ian Smith minority
govenrment in Salisbury last week,
said the first step would be to con-
vene the UN Security Council within
the next 10 days.

The Security Council, if convened,
would be asked to authorize a
speciat UN representative to
supervise a -fiar and impartial
transfer of power andelections. The
special representative would have
_ control of the UN force.

One of the major political oh-
stacles is that neither the White

mies

Rhodesians nor the Black
nationalists have accepted the
British-American plan and both
would want to retaincontrol of their
armed forces during the proposed
transition period. -

The Rhodesian government has
about 50,000 full and parttime
security forces under arms and the
nationalists control at least 6,000
guerrillas, more thana third of them
within Rhodesia and the rest just
beyond friendly borders. ;

The idea would be for the UN force
to fill the void while an interim

- British administrator formed a

national army combining elements
of the whiteled armed forces and
the guerrilla groups... The UN force
also would prevent either side from
seizing the upper hand during the
year-long transition period.

But the idea for a UN force would

be dead until both sides agreed to.

aceept such a contingent. Under the
UN .charter, a UN force can be
stationed in territory only with the
agreement of all sides involved in a
dispute.

The. UN’ also. may experience
difficulty in finding countries willing
to contribute troops.

By tradition, troop contributions
are drawn from the small and
middle powers, such as Canada,
which has expertise based on long
association with UN peace forces
going back to the first one formed in
the Middle East in 1948.

always a major contributor to the

UN .contingents, now has ap-
proximately 1,500 men stationed in
three peace forces in Cyprus and the
Middle East. Th
probably are stretched to the limit
on the number of men they can
provide for UN operations since the
men. assigned are highly trained
specialists and must be drawn from
the ranks of the Canadian army at

me.

Some diplomats fear the
Rhodesian plan would face op-
position from the Soviet Union and
China in the Security Council, where
each has a veto, but others suggest
that,. for tactical reasons, the
Russians and Chinese would agree
to any proposition the Africans
themselves endorse. Both countries
are deeply involved in Africa. ~

The Canadians —

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| Voice of the readers

Yukon vets

Iris Warner, Whitehorse
author-researcher, 18
working on a Remembrance

- Day 1977 feature story about

Yukon W.W. II Veterans.

She has a list of 100 Yukon
men and women who served

in the three branches of the .
- Canadian Armed

Forces.
Many of them are now livin
in the far flung parts of
British Columbia, and
across Canada.

She asks them to send her
the following information: -
Number, name, rank,
picture in uniform, service
details, medals and awards,
highlights of war ex-
periences, and a touch of
mpersonal background.

‘The Pacific Coast Militia
Rangers had a Yukon Unit.

The late Klondike Pete
Huley, Hollywood Comedian
and Gold Rush Ploneer, was
amember of the Yukon Unit

‘located at Bear Creek who

proved himself a sharp-
shooter. She would ap-
preciate hearing from ex-
members so that their
history may be recorded.

Write: ;

Iris Warner .

14 - 5. Klondike Roa

Whitehorse, Yukon.

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Ali Yukon Veterans . are
asked to answer the Call to
ACTION. :

Mr. Editor - Many thanks
for this generous space - and
may. your circulation
continue to grow.

Very sincerely,

Otto Nordling

Yukon Sourdough Veteran

Posties help
senior citizens

CALGARY (CP)- The
Calgary post office and
Kerby Centre, a meeting
place for older peaple, have
organized a new service for
senior citizens living alone
in the downtown ares.

The service is called
Early Alert and is an
emergency information and

referral system through
which the letter carriers
notify Kerby Centre when
elderly people are not
picking up their mail and
may need assistance.

If a person reigisters with
Early Alert, an identifying
label is placed inside their
mailbox where it is visible
only to the letter carrier.

If the carrier notices that

mail has been sitting in that
box for two days or so, he

PITTSBURGH (AP)-
There-are office buildings
ingtead of tall pines, auto
esinissions instead of
nature’s perfumes, and
barge-filled waterways
instead of virgin streams.

Yet people bait fishhooks
on the concrete wharves of
downtown Pittsburgh and
wait for the abrupt bend of a
rod to vault them into
anglers’ paradise.

The fish, once limited to
city tough scavengers, have
grown more varied and
plentiful in recent years.
Some wind up in skillets, but
city fishing is mainly an
escape from the urban pace.

“After a while, you don’t
even hear the cars; you just
git, relax and fish,” retired
mailman Frank Ruperto
said while sitting, relaxing
and fishing along busy
Allegheny River Boulevard.

As cars sped by 20 feet
away, Ruperto sat in a
folding chair near his auto.
He watched two rods
mounted on a guard rail
over the river, dark green in
the afternoon sun.

“They put the guard rail

because people were
stripping stolen cars and
then running them off the
wharf into the river,” said
Ruperto, who baits his hooks
with doughball - a pasteof
cornmeal and flour he
flavors with vanilla.

“There are still a bunch of
cars down there, We're
always snagging lines,”

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‘There are fish down there
too. That’s why anglers by

. the ‘dozen line. up each

evening. .. |

‘1 started fishing here
about 15 years ago,” said
Roberto. “Then all you got
were carp and catfish
because they were the only
ones that could live in that
water.’"’

“But . they’ve been
cleaning it up the past four
or five years. Now you get
perch, bass, blue gills and a
few walleyes. You get good,
clean fish.”

Carp and catfish, both
hearty fish, are still the
main downtown cateh along
the. Allegheny and the
dirtier Monogahela River.

“] caught a 39 inch carp
here a few years ago,” said
Ruperto. ‘You get a lot of
them 28 to 30 inches.”

As he spoke, coal barges
churned past. “It’s funny,
but I always seem to get
bites when the barges go by.
Maybe they drive the fish to
the shore.” .

A short while later, a
nearby fisherman souned a
loud alarm. ‘‘Watchout, you
donkey,”’ be shouted to a
man cruising with his
family in a speedboat near
the whart. “You'll snag our
ine.”

The warning by Vince Doc
Dougherty was to no avail.
He lost 50 feet of line as it
was caught in the boat's
propeller and nearly pulled
his rod away.

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“i'm sure he'll be sorry he missed vou.”

will call the centre where

If there is no answer, a
contact person named on the
registration card will be
notified. This contact is, of
course, a trusted friend to
whom the registrant has
given a key to the premiese.

‘If the contact person
eannot be reached, Kerby
Centre's outreach depart-
ment will make a house call
and, if necessary, contact.
police.

Early Alert was organized
following the publication of
a newspaper story of a
similar project in New
York.

The director of that
project said they'd found
elderly people locked in
closets after being
burglarized; people who ha
fallen and couldn't make it
to the phone; people who {

the staff will check the file
. and. phone. the person to
determine if help is needed. knowing.

BUT PATIENTS OFTEN UNGRATEFUL

and had died without anyone

Bored with your job? Be a snake doctor

5ST. AUGUSTINE, Fla. (AP)- There are
still some uncrowded, challenging
professions in this world.
Snake doctoring is one,

Dr..Jack Shuler, a young St, Augustine
veterinarian, moves warily but deter-
minedly .into this uncluttered field in
‘conjunction’ with his more routine ser-
vices to the animal kingdom.

One of his snaky ungrateful patients is a
deadly, nasty-tempered eastern
diamondback rattler with a sore mouth.
Dr, Shuler makes house calls to treat the
ailing rattler and other reptiles at the St.
Augustine Alligator Farm on Anastasia

and, .

First moves include “getting a handle”
on the patient, Shuler says. His assistant
and snake doctors must trust their
assistants fully - is Ross Allen, world-
famous reptile expert and exhibitor.
Allen performed for 47 years at Silver
Springs and now does his thing daily

NEW YORK (AP)- Get something on a
famed “good guy” and it sizzles. Even if
it only raises a question mark. That is
sort of what has happened to evangelist
Billy. Graham. But’he haa laid out his
detailed answer.

an old tape recording haa turned up which

seema to undercut the original im-
plication that he had set up a “secret
fund” alongside his evangelistic
operations.

“It put a question in people’s mind °

concerning my integrity and respon-

’ sibility,” Graham said in a telephone

interview before he left on his first
preaching mission in Hungary.

“The basic impression {t leaves is
groundless.’””

That appears confirmed by the tape
recording, made by an Akron Beacon
Journal reporter, Peter Geiger, five years
a series on Graham in which he talks
about the fund to aid other evangelical
work. a

“It vindicates Graham,” Geiger said.
“Tt doesn’t speak to whether the fund

before wideeyed specatators at the
Alligator Farm. .

“T've been handling snakes - the non-
poisonous ones - since I was a child and I
guess it grows on me,” Shuler said.

Here’s how a day goes in a snake doc-
tor’s life: -

Alten brings out his patient, the ailing
rattler,.in a metal too) chest,

The lid is raised and Allen, unbelievably
nearing age 70, zips hishand in and
bringsout the big rattler. He maintains a
firm grip behind the snake's spear-shaped
head. Allen’s left hand grasps the snake's

-ediling body as he lifts him clear of the
tool box.

Shuler moves in quickly with a cotton
swab saturated with a red mixture con-
taining iodine. The zattler responds to the
pressure of Allen's fingers on a strategic
spot on its neck by opening its mouth fully,
exposing the curved white fangs capable

of squirting a deadly hemotoxic poison .

ought to exist, but the tape certainly
apeaks to the fact that it wasn’t any
secret,”

Recent reports about he fund were
carried by the Charlotte, N.C., Observer
in a series on Graham. The series is
being distributed in augmented form by
Universal Syndicate of Mission City, Kan.
In the tape recording in 1972; Graham
says that the fund had been set up 4 year
and a half before, with headquarters in
Dallas and was “raising money to be used
the world.”

That.also is the gist of his newly issued, ©

extensive statement about the $22 million
fund, called the World Evangelism and
Christian Education Fund. It was
established in 1970 to ald seminaries,
evangelical training .and periodicals,
missions, relief work, hospitals and
scholarships throughout the world.

“In its early years, we talked about It
freely to various reporters and at press
conferences, to anybody who would listen,
but it generally was ignored as .tco dull,”
Graham said,

that attacks the blood components and
muscles of the snake’s victims. —-

Shuler slowly manoeuvres the swab |

around the fangs and paints the deep
recesses of the rattler’s inflamed throat.

Carefully Allen lowers the snake to a
table. The snake doctor moves in closer
and dabs medicine on an infected area on
the top of the rattler’s head.

Treatment over, Shuler steps back and
Allen lifts the patient and puts him slowly
back into the metal box. His final
movement dropping the snake’s forward
section and quickly slamming the lid -
takes a split second, ,

“There’s not a lot written down about
treatment of snakes,”’ Shuler explained.
He hopes to change this by working ex-
tensively with sick reptiles - and healthy
ones, too - and by publishing his findings
in U.S. and international veterinary
journals.

Later, however, he said he “quit talking
about it” partly because heavy demands
on it were more than could be met, and
because it now lis concentrating on
financing a major Christian education
centre at Wheaton College in Illinois for
missions and evangelism training.

“It's not really untruthful for sterles to
but to go on to imply that it was hidden or
secret is just not true.’ _

He said that the fund is independently
audited annually and regular reports are
filed on it with the U.S, Internal Revenue
Service of a type open to public inspection
at_all times.

Graham, now 58 and the world's leading
evangelist for a quarter century, hag
always emphasized openness about his
finances and early in his career spurned
the system of unrecorded “love offerings”

which sometimes have brought abuses in |

evangelism. He. insisted that his
operations be overseen by a-board of lay

“Snakes have problems, too,’ Shuler
added. “They can get pneumonia and are
bothered by parasites.’’ ;

What was wrong with the rattler he's
just swabbed?

"*T treated him for a bacterial infection,
primarily of the fang sheath and venom
sacs,” Shuler said.

“Duting capture and early handling, the.
snake had a rough time adjusting and he
at. his cage that he injured his mouth.
This caused swelling, and the parasitic
bacteria present in the snake's mouth
moved inand caused serious infection of a
type that is usually fatal if not treated.”

Pneumonia is. more prevalent among
snakes in captivity than those in the wild
Shuler said. Living with other snakes and
reptiles, some snakes succumb to —
ailments that man hasdone little research ©
on,

Cancer and tumors also plaque the
reptile world.

BUT ACCUSATIONS GROUNDLESS _ —_
Wolves'gather around Graham |

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* people, with all his staff members on fixed

salaries, including himself,
He said his salary currently is $39,500
annually, with fringe benefits such as
- hospitalization making it worth $42,000,
He also gets some additional, variable
income from his newspaper columns and
his father's farm estate. Royalties from
his books lately all have been contributed |
to Christian education. ;
Graham's clean-cut image makes him a
tempting target, and a new book by a Loa
Angeles radio newsman, Chuck Ashman,
The Gospel According to Billy, even
purport links to organized crime-a theory
based on Graham's past conversion of ex-
convicts. , .
Of some.of the recent insinuations,
Graham said, “I really don’t understand -
it. It mystifies me:”
Because of the recent flap, Graham said
organization’s board to start issuing
fuller, more detialed annua) financial
statements ‘so everybody will know
exactly where the money goes and just
how it comes in,’’ whether or not they're
interested. ,

needed hospital treatment