Word: feathering
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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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...
Just before this winter's storms arrived, along with an anticipated 18 ft. of snow, the Yuba-Feather Health Center held its first open house. Furniture in the waiting room was pushed back for dancing. Hill people arrived from lumbering outposts, such as Shenanigan Flats, Timbuctoo, Challenge and Strawberry Valley. Carrying plastic wine glasses, they poked their heads into the X-ray area, the pharmacy and the psychologist's quarters. They wandered through the cook's shack, now transformed into a dentist's office. And they studied twinkling, gyrating machines in the laboratory, formerly a fire...
...Rose's work load is a throwback to the days of black bags and horse-drawn buggies. In the 3½ years since he came to Feather Falls, he has been careening around its twisty roads in a flower-speckled '68 VW Bug pretty much day and night. Rose talks in an easy country twang that belies his Princeton (B.A. '69) and Baylor (M.D. '73) education. After serving his residency in an urban Oakland, Calif., hospital, he came to Feather Falls and found himself delivering goats, prescribing for sick dogs and sewing up deer attacked...
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...