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...Unwilling Samaritan. In the Flathead National Forest, Mont., Rancher Henry Holmes encountered two deer fighting with their horns locked, shot at them, struck the horns, set them free...
...employers and unions alike know that ballyhoo alone is not the cure. Unions emphasize the impact of bad scheduling and materials shortages upon worker morale : why beat your brains out today when outside causes will lay you off tomorrow? Such layoffs have indeed occurred all too often. The deer-hunting season, for example, coincided with material shortages so severe that General Motors instructed its plant superintendents to let any worker go who wanted to shoot deer. Result: G.M.'s "absent for personal reasons" figures soared. Poor transportation, bad housing, lack of household help also discourage workers from regular attendance...
Good fare for children is the simple Blackfoot fable Why People Die Forever ("so that we shall be sorry for each other"), the Confucianist fable With Deer's Milk He Supplied His Parents. By & large Editor Smith leaves out the sort of stories that Sunday-school teachers rely on. Her Old Testament anthology omits the tales of Joshua, Gideon, Samson and Daniel in favor of the minor prophets Amos, Hosea and Micah...
Author Rich lives in the wilds with Husband Ralph, Son Rufus and various dogs, skunks, neighbors. She bathes in a washtub placed near the kitchen stove. She uses ("supreme test of fortitude") an outhouse, which in winter can be reached only through knee-deep snow. "Bear and deer and wildcat tracks are all in the day's walk, while a stray human bootprint throws us into a dither...
...living the Riches write articles, stories, guide city "sports," haul anything from logs and boats to litters of pigs and Camp Fire Girls. In December they stock up for winter from their nearest A. & P.-40 miles away. Pork loin and whole deer swing frozen from ceiling hooks in the sheds...