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United Press International
CHICAGO — Fewer Halloween
tricks and more treats were re
ported by police chiefs in 125 U-
nited States cities questioned in a re
cent survey.
The cities ranged in population
from 6,500 to more than 2 million.
Among them were Yarmouth,
Mass.; Pierre, S.D.; Missoula,
Mont.; Everett, Wash.; Texarkana,
Texas; Ternpe, Ariz.; Omaha; Seat
tle, and San Diego.
More than 90 percent of the
chiefs said their cities had experi
enced far fewer incidents of tam
pered treats or no incidents at all in
the past year or two.
The same percentage reported a
decrease in or an absence of hoax
calls to police about treats that had
been tainted.
The survey was made by the Na
tional Confectioners Association, a
trade organization representing
candy and confectionery makers
nationwide.
The study indicated most reports
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of tainted treats in past years were
either honest errors or attempts by
children to gain attention by tam
pering with the treats themselves.
Widespread reporting of such in
cidents has a ripple effect, the chiefs
said.
About 80 percent of the chiefs
said the effect is being counteracted
in their cities with the cooperation
of newspapers, radio and television
stations that now check with the
police about reported incidents be
fore printing or broadcasting news
of them.
The study also showed a strong
trend toward more organized treat
ing hours and community events to
keep children in chaperoned groups
and out of mischief long associated
with Halloween. It was made in con
junction with the confectioners’
Meet n’ Treat program, launched in
1972 to promote a safe holiday.
Forty-six cities reported special
events, some sponsored by com
munity centers, clubs and other or
ganizations or by the city govern
ments. Twenty-two percent of the
cities hold Halloween parades and
13 percent establish haunted
houses.
In Newport, R.I., the police de
partment said vandalism has de
creased 80 percent since it began
holding an annual Halloween party
at a football field. The programl
eludes movies, dancing, gaiJ
sports, refreshments and a i
cream fight between chap«n
and kid. In Reno, Nev., |
Portsmouth, Va., the polictp
away candy from cruisers andp
stations. The cruisers carry sj
“Don’t trick, we ll treat.”
In Livonia, Mich., policec
write tickets for safe Hallowmj
tivities — a police department^
house and “deli” tray dinnerj
children and their parents.
The Ft. Lauderdale, Fla.,i
tion department sponsors a parti
a local park with games, rides([
carnival booths.
Not all witches worship
Satan on Halloween night
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United Press International
COLORADO SPRINGS, Colo —
Chris Richards, a male witch, says at
midnight on Halloween he and his
wife will dress in deep purple
hooded robes to celebrate one of
their religion’s major sabbath days.
Richards, 27, said Sunday he and
his wife, Tammerlayne, 29, will be
joined by “4 to 12” persons for the
midnight “Samhaim” ritual at the
couple’s home. He said the gather
ing will communicate with “those
yet to be born and those who have
passed on.”
Richards said he previously had
been successful in communicating
with a deceased “maternal relative
who gave him some practical advice.
“I have done it before,’ he said.
“It’s like the line in the motion pic
ture Star Wars, ‘trust your feelings,’
which is one of the premises of
witchcraft.”
Richards said contrary to popular
belief about witchcraft, he and his
wife do not practice Satanism but
rather are worshipers of nature.
“We believe that anythingoccinj
in nature is acceptable, he
“We are not devil worshipers,
can do what we want to do hi!
don’t want to hurt anyi
Everyone has potential to lean
work with the powers of nalia
said Richards.
Richards, who as a small hot
cepted witchcraft as a religion,!
he had been a “high priest the;
three years and that his wifewa
dained a "high priestess” 10
ago at Stonehenge in England,
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MOUNT CARMEL, Ill. — If you
want to know what’s ahead in winter
weather, don’t toss away that
Thanksgiving goose breastbone
until you notice its color and length.
A white and short breastbone
means a mild and short winter, but a
long and dark one spells plenty' of
service for the longjohns.
The goose breastbone is only one
in a long list of weather folklore col
lected and recollected by' James Gil-
lihan through most of his 43 years.
Most of this year’s signs, he said,
point to a less severe winter than
the past two.
Gillihan, who left his job as direc
tor of South Dakota’s Office of Cul
tural Preservation at Pierre last
February because of poor health,
has returned home as archivist at
Wabash Valley. College.
“As a boy, I remember what my
grandfather told me about the
folklore signs,” Gillihan said, “and
my father still plants his garden and
does his fishing according to the
signs.”
Gillihan, a Southern Illinois
University-Carbondale graduate,
has worked in several states where
he came in close contact with
folklorists.
From 1957-65 he was state sal
vage archaeologist stationed at SIU,
scouting Southern Illinois for an
cient cultures endangered by high
way projects.
He also served as curator at the
Evansville, Ind., Museum; director
of arts and sciences at the Lake view
Center for Arts and Sciences at
Peoria, Ill.; director of the South
east Arkansas Arts and Sciences
Center at Pine Bluff, and director of
the William H. Over Museum at
University of South Dakota.
Folklore about the caterpillar as a
forecaster of winter weather
abounds, Gillihan said.
“Caterpillars seen late in the au
tumn signify a very mild winter, but
a large number of caterpillars in the
autumn is the sign of a cold winter.
“If they are so numerous thatth
drop down from trees and busln
look for an open or mild winter"
Ordinarily, Gillihan said,
winter will be hard if the wo
worms are mostly a dark color
will be mild if they are mostlyaS]
color. But if the autumn caterpifi
are endrely yellow, the winter
be very cold.
“Conversely, if the caterpil
are entirely black in the autu:
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the winter will be mild,” he said I
the autumnal caterpillar has a li I
yellow on his nose, the winten I
be cold in the early part oli I
winter.
“When the caterpillar has 4
brown in the center of the body
is yellow at each end, the middl
the winter will be very cold. A
low stripe running down theceal
part of the caterpillars ba
foretells cold weather in the mid
part of the winter also, but
caterpillar has only a small am«
of yellow on its tail, the«
weather will appear late in
winter. ”
Other winter signs from theC
han collection:
—Dirt piles around ant nests
July mean an early and se«
winter.
—Especially warm weatherinl
first week of August means a
winter snowfalls.
—If earthworms burrow deep
the fall, a severe winter is comisj
—If blackberries ripen late
slowly, the winter will be long
cold.
—Heavily silked and huskedt
means a had winter ahead.
—A hard winter is ahead ifdi#
ens molt in August or if theirf
zards are hard to remove.
Other bad winter signs, Gil
said, include fat raccoons inthei
thick skins on onions, tight
walnuts, moss on the south sidt
trees, fruit trees that bloom twi«
the summer, a large numbet
tumblebugs, and if the bark on!
sycamore tree turns dark and ro«|
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