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People around Feather Falls remember when anyone who got seriously injured was likely to be strapped into a canoe for a bumpy 20-mile ride down the lumber flume to the Marysville hospital. Those less ill were treated by the Widow Griffith-until she died at the age of 98. Says Marysville's Dr. Lynn Frink: "They would come in with half their face eaten away with a cancer that could have been treated successfully three years ago; or they'd be in bad shape from heart disease when all they needed was digitalis. If they should have...
...stitching was done at the new Yuba-Feather Health Center, three log cabins built as a staging site for fighting forest fires but recently transformed into a medical resource serving 8,000 people spread over 900 sq. mi. of mountain. It was paid for out of federal and private funds, which cover the salaries of two full-time physicians: Rose, 32, and his partner, Dr. William Hoffman, 34. Both the center and the young doctors who staff it are signs of a national effort to bring doctoring back to rural America...
Such grousing leaves Vardaman un-ruffed. His next project is to sight more than 5,000 varieties of birds around the world in one year. Meanwhile, he can comfort himself with the thought that he did find two more birds of a different feather in 1979. On the last day of the year, a neighbor gave him a bottle of Wild Turkey whisky with a paper bird wired to its neck. That gave him 700 after...
...organic, renewable, nonpolluting resource," as Ernest Graf, president of Ben Kahn Furs, explains. In Alaska's subzero temperatures, residents fend off the cold with Eskimo mukluks, boots made from sealskin and caribou, and fur parkas. And down is up everywhere. At many a party, discussing the virtues of feather-stuffed outerwear has replaced talk about the right running gear...
...jewels safe, and plenty of drawers for her status jeans (which come with this warning: "for tight-fitting fashions, especially pants, ask an adult for some baby powder and rub it on doll's legs before slipping on clothes.") There are even hangers for superstar Barbie's feather boa and disco dresses...