The Times Standard from Eureka, California • Page 8

8 --Monday, September 30, 1974 THE --442-1711 Califoim. Andrew Genzoli i The saga of Bahamas One of the unusual stories of the disastrous i.flood of Humboldt and Del Norte; counties were ripped apart by i swollen rivers, was the rescue of an Angus steer after, its harrowing; journey from its corral on! the Klamath into Cres, cent City, harbor. The animal is still very much alive-today, and Harriett E. Weaver, wrw wrote the book, ''Frosty, A Racoon to Remember," the story about an occupant of San-Lorenzo Valley, in Santa Cruz," has turned her story-telling talents to present-her novel, Bahamas A Steer to Remember." The book is published by Vanguard now. available -at $5.95.

It is a.good novel for young and old since much of the scene, is located in Del Norte' county, with flashbacks to and other Humboldt areas, -I receives'the-reception- it For the story, Brad 15, raised Baihamas from a weak, little a Bahamas' life had been one of tranquility until that memorable moment in December 1964, when he was rushed out of his-protective quarters Hale'ranch at Klamath Glen and hurried downr stream to almost certain disaster. In of- debris which supported. Bahamas there was'little seaworthiness, but the.animal was propelled into the stormy (End cover map's- show the route The scene at Crescent a harbor, filled with with fishing boats entangled in the mass'of. trees and logs, is to be remembered by the.many us who were here during that strange 1964 season. Fishermen watching over the fate of the "Sea Belle" observed a movement in the debris; and discovered the was a dangerous task to the'animal, but carefully, they did, after which there was the problem of keeping him alive.

Once the news got out, if you remember, the press was'trying to be headlines, "Bullish Miracle," and the a miracle of sorts, the steer survived the long, dangerous trek, when so many human, being didn't! The'Crescent City American called the famous bull, "Captain Couragr eous" probably barkening back to the 1930s when-. Spencer-Tracy and Freddie Bartholomew made a film with that name, off our Humboldt-Del Norte Harriett Weaver in her epilogue, says Bahamas today is the picture of contentment and well being --weighing nearly a ton, she says, no one ever thinks, much'less speaks of Bahamas in terms- of roasts and steaks. "The.Klamath Chamber of-Commerce has pur- chased'hinfs'o that'frorri here oh put he may.rernaitv in his.neighborhood and life.of a.country; squire! Every Bahamas is moved down to a grassy especially-built corral in old Kamath Townsite, where manner of goodies'are bestowed upon him by friends, former neighbors and summer tourists. So it is no surprise anyone that he spoils as he ever did. Quite obviously he simply picked up where he left off when the great flood of 1964 carried him away.

"Meanwhile, for. directing and leading his sensa-. tional rescue, Don. Ford was feted at a banquet in Crescent City. On that occasion a representative of the American Humane Society flew north to pay tribute by awarding Don a well deserved medal of honor for compassion and bravery." While for the novel's sake the young owner is described as Brad Hale, the.

real owners of Bahamas was Mr. and Mrs. Larry Bush and family. The author's settings and events are accurately recorded and provide good reading. Only uniformed woman ranger Harriett E.

Weaver is a California transplant, born in Iowa. She-spent part of her. life 1 in Southern California, attending high-school and college in Los-Angeles, For more than 20 summers she worked in the redwood forests of California and was. the only uniformed woman on the California state park ranger She is -now an- honorary -lifetime ranger. During the winters she returns dovynstate to the Fillmore Junior High "Beloved Was is her seventh, book.

She is now working on a new volume about her years with the park service; Gem and mineral show Mrs. Peggy Mayeau, Eureka and Humboldt Gem and Mineral Society librarian and show treasurer, says "Oct. 4, 5, 6, the society will observe its 20th anniversary with a show. In 1949, Albert Porter, an avid rockhound got together a group with a similar interest to form the society. "Porter was well known'around the county, especially Pepperwppd, lived.

He had- one of the fonest collections of crystals, cat-eye agates and fluo'rescents "in the county. In 1964 tragedy, struck him. when he lost his wife, home and some of his fabulous collection in that flood. After that he went to Burney to live vith his daughter, Mrs. Mildred Sarvinski until he died in 1968.

"George Morgan, who died recently, was the club's, first president. He taught science at Eureka High School'. The society held its first show in 1954 in the Carson Memorial building, and from that successful event has become an annual event. The society short-term loan fund for students studying earth sciences at Humboldt State University. Each year on Friday, the school children of the county are invited, with their teachers, to come to the show." This year, the' show will be held at Redwood Acres, Friday, Oct.

4, 9 a.m. to 10 p.m.; Saturday, Oct. 5, 10, a.m. to 10 p.m. and Sunday, 10 a.m.

to 5 p.m. George Preston, president of the society, extends an invitation. Story for today i Two beggars, a husband and wife, were plying their-trade a few yards from each other in Naples, Italy When an American tourist placed a dollar in the woman's hand, she shouted to her husband, "Salvatore! Are we accepting dollars?" --Reader's Digest Can By RICHARD J. MALOY The a i i a i WathligtM WASHINGTON an Republican Watergate fair trial from jury in the District of a city which is mostly Black and Democratic? i Lawyers for the six in the big coverup trial scheduled to start'. Tuesday argued it would be impossible to select an unbiased jury; drawn from-residents'of the They -asked that, the': trial be moyed elsewhere, but-''were -urned down by judge John Sirica Who' said the will toe held in the nation's capital as planned.

Thus a parade of big from' the' Nixbh' Administration will be'in the dock at the federal courthouse here charges of obstruction of'justice. The defendants. are John N. Mitchell, former U.S.' attorney ieneral; John Ehrlichnran, 'ormer presidential H. R.

Haldeman, the number one aide, in the. Nixon White House; Robert C. Mardian, a former: assistant, attorney general; Gordon C. Strachari, i a -White. House political operative; and Kenneth W.

Parkinson, a. former presidential lawyer and political aide. Jury 'fight The first big'fight of the trial will conie'over the'selection of a jury, and it is during that process that the defendants' lawyers can 'bV expected eialwrate on their earlier arguments that x' oni te Republicans can't get a fair shake from-district residents. Oh the surface, they appear to have a good argument. Census figures show that of District of Columbia's 756,072 resides, 71 per cent are' Black.

Voter registration figures show that of the city's 305,072 registered votcrs, 76 per! cent registered as Democrats, 13 per cent as Republicans'and 10 per cent as independents. 'Bill, behind'those figures are ither demographic. statistics vhich give a more complete ure of the residents of this city the banks of the Potomac River. They depict not a city of poor, activist. Blacks biased against he establishment; but .1 community composed of well educated, middle and high income, professionals with middle class values.

Per-caipita personal income in he. district last, 'year, for example, was J6337. This is 126 per cent of the-national average ler capita personal' income of Median education of district, residents is also, well above the national avera-ge. This means that half of the adults iving in the city have, some college education. At the time of the 1970 Census, 25 per cent of the city's 'amilies enjoyed incomes above 15,000 and only 11 per cent were below $3,000.

Sixty per cent of the workers the city hold dawn white collar jobs, only 17 per cent have blue collar positions, and 22 per cent are employed in service occupations. White collar While nearly three-fourths of city residents are Black, they do not' fit the sterotype associated with Black inner-ciy ghettos in big cities across the nation. The reason for this is historical. Washington was one of the first places in the nation'where" could get and hold a good job and hope for steady professional and financial ad vancement if qualified. This was because of the presence of the federal government, the largest employer in the city; Starting several generations ago, Blacks mainly from the South began coming here to take jobs in the government, mostly in lower level oc- Turkey capital wins big race CUERO, Tex.

(UPI) The Traveling Turkey Trophy Tumultuous Triumph will spend the next 12 months in the turkey, capital of the world because of the speed of a torn turkey named Paycheck. On the other hand, the same trophy will spend the next 12 months out of the turkey capital of the, world because of the slowess afoot Ruby Begonia. That's because two turkey capitals of the world -Cuero, and Worthington, Minn. Each city holds a turkey race at its annual turkey fest an) jamboree, and this year Worthington's Paycheck reached the finish line 59 seconds before Cuero's Ruby Begonia in one of the contests and just .2 second behind in the second, to c'aim the trophy. cupations It was.

steady work homes and a qualified Black ranee through the Tanks. was to-purchase a professionals, occivy 1 and house and fulfill-the American dream by his- children The- private sector. 1 '6rk homes' upper' ad- 16th Street is in area'known as income i the Gold. 1 off to college for- higher educa- Today those Children, now slum, grown and with families of their wn, have moved 'into white col- ar and professional "jobs', within the 'government, the Blacks comfortable brick Mifhted; Black ment and is now. filled with new town houses and high rise apartments, mostly The.

northwest section: of'the The northeast. of District is where most of- the 25 cent of the vote in 1972; city is composed miles of per cent of 'city who TM: PnmfnPtjlH'p tinfflo.fnmiilr Hri'nlr uro 'mnti are white live. For the most District -residents jot the' right voe was divided evenlr-'between Jft President in'1964 and social 1 attitudes; ci- 1 1 eIc Lyndon Johnson got- 85 per cent of the city'vote in. 82'pet'-cent in 1968 'and George McQovern walked off with 78 ingful demonstration- ty residehfannij nnminea' Tnr iwavisit' lt s.noe,u.atiUme nominee for mayor who'wis a The main problem 1 will ot be with new Lvndon Johnson TM. Z- i Incurnlberit a Clifford per cent Of tne vote in 197Z wh pledged to -name a Black per.centvof the Blacks police brirlf voted Dernocratic, but the white Blacks into city hall if for the itri'al, defense lawyers and -the prw- ecutors will find dealing not; 'untypical an opponent irtw'had are." Blacks 6 t.e Instead it 'be' Washington had 55 per the problem' whichnhey- would" cent; of the vote'; cornpared 'to encounter anywhere today.ih this Uvi.ted States--finding someone has not heard' about 'the bririf galore Watergate, scandal; and an opinion about it.

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