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Last week a U.S.-Canadian committee called the Whooping Crane Advisory Group gathered in Washington to consider some schemes for keeping the whooping crane from going the way of the heath hen and the passenger pigeon. Shelved: a proposal to capture several pairs of cranes and try to breed them in captivity. Left pending: a more modest proposal to capture a lone crane and try to mate it with the one in San Antonio. A difficulty in this scheme: since adult whooping cranes look alike to human eyes, the chances would run only 50-50 that the new pair would...
...feeling of frustration if the student cannot get good enough grades to please the host of outside observers pressuring him. University Hall asks for grades in freshman courses four times a year, and this intensifies the problem. Grades here may serve, asserts Dr. Dana L. Farnsworth, director of University Heath Service, to "reactivate old conflicts" by emphasizing competition...
...fishermen, loggers, chicken farmers and the elderly retired, whom Heath most commonly treats, are never embarrassed by oversize bills, sometimes settle accounts with the country doctor's traditional basket of eggs or a fresh-caught sockeye salmon. Last week the islanders found a different way of thanking "our beloved Doc." At Friday Harbor he was handed the keys to a new 20-room, $23,000 clinic, the finest in the area, financed by gifts from grateful patients and summer visitors. There were plenty of speeches, but after the ceremony Dr. Heath could hardly wait to celebrate in his usual...
...Juan Islands, he soon learned, make no place for a 9-to-5 practice. To make emergency calls anywhere in the 200-sq.-mi. archipelago, Heath took flying lessons, bought a Piper Tri-Pacer. He keeps cars at Friday Harbor and Eastsound, and a third at Bellingham, where he takes his more serious cases for hospital treatment. He also added a 20-ft. cabin cruiser to his transport fleet, painted it shocking pink for easy visibility. He makes it a point to leave word of his whereabouts-even on his rare fishing trips-so that local pilots can find...
Beloved Doc. The gravest medical emergencies in the islands usually find amphibious Dr. Heath close at hand. At Eastsound, Heath saw a light airplane crash with two occupants, hurried to the scene to give lifesaving aid to the single survivor. When a tree fell on an Orcas Island logger, Heath lugged the injured man piggyback to a Coast Guard ambulance plane. Another emergency call summoned Heath to a yacht to treat a woman who was bleeding dangerously from a severed artery in her thumb. Heath popped a rubber band around the thumb for a tourniquet, had an assistant sterilize instruments...