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THURSDAY, NOVEMBER 29, 1979
Birth control pills missing
Bones indicate tribe’s cannibalism
United Press International
CHICAGO — About 23,000 pack
ets of birth control pills valued at
more than $100,000 were discovered
missing during the Chicago Health
Department’s six-month audit, offi
cials say.
The pills, known as “Orval,” were
discovered missing from the depart
ment’s central warehouse, Deputy
Health Commissioner Terry Hocin
said Tuesday.
Hocin said federal authorities
were called to assist in the investiga
tion because the pills were purch
ased with federal funds.
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NEW ORLEANS — Architectu-
al remains of an ancient Indian civi-
iization that inhabited what is now
he southeastern shore of Lake Pont-
hartrain indicate the Tchefuncte
ribe may have practiced cannibal-
sm, a University of New Orleans
rofessor says.
Dr. J. Richard Shenkel, who has
rganized excavations at the Indian
ites in eastern New Orleans, said
he recovery of fragments of bones
apparently from butchered
ies — could mean the Indians ate
uiman flesh.
“I don’t think they were cannibals
rut of necessity,” Shenkel said.
They had plenty to eat.” The pro-
essor said the human body does not
provide as much meat as other anim
als, so the practice may have been
ceremonial rather than a necessary
source of food.
Shenkel said cannibalism was not
uncommon in the southeastern Un
ited States, in southwest Louisiana
and in parts of Texas. But he said the
basic Indian diet consisted of the
teeming seafood and wetland wild
life that inhabited the area — deer,
muskrat, turtles, drum fish and alli
gators.
“The wetland marsh environment
is the richest in the world,” Shenkel
said. “They could exploit all those
environments.”
The artifacts were located on what
formerly was an island between the
Mississippi River and the Gulf of
Mexico. Shenkel said about 5,000
years ago, several islands stretched
from the mouth of the Pearl River to
the northern part of Jefferson Parish.
These islands later formed the south
ern shore of Lake Pontchartrain
when the land gradually built itself
up.
Those Indian inhabitants appa
rently relied on a small white clam
for sustenance, but as the Mississip
pi’s delta encroached and poured
fresh water into the clams’ salt water
breeding grounds, they began to
die.
“That’s why the Indians moved
about 100 B.C.,” Shenkel said.
From three summers of digging,
students at UNO have been able to
piece together a sketchy idea of what
the Indians looked like. Shenkel said
the men, who lived into their 30s,
were about 5 feet 4 and the women
were about 5 feet tall.
“They are not our ancestors,”
Shenkel said, “but they are our
heritage because we occupy the
same space and we eat the same
things. We try to survive in the same
environment. They did pretty well
for 2,000 years.
“We’ve been here only about 200
years, and they managed to live in it
without ruining it. At the rate we re
going, we might not have it for too
much longer.”
The architectural site, called Oak
Island, has been included in the Na
tional Register of Historic Places,
but its future protection may hinge
United Press International
BESSEMER, Ala. — Charles and
Sandra Hasty were no longer able to
provide for their 21-month-old son,
so they made plans to give the child
to friends for $500 and get out of his
life.
But the deal never came off. The
Hastys were arrested Tuesday on
misdemeanor child neglect charges,
and a Family Court hearing was
scheduled Wednesday in Binning^
ham to determine who would get
temporary custody of the child,
Charles Hasty Jr.
After the Hastys were arrested.
the boy was sent to a state-run home.
Marshall and Barbara Jackson, the
couple who took the child in last
week, vowed to wage a court battle
to retain custody of him.
The Hastys told police they plan
ned to give their son to the Jacksons
for $500 because they could not pro
vide for him. The money, which
apparently never changed hands,
was supposed to be used to get the
Hastys out of the state so the youngs
ter would not remember them.
The Jacksons said they felt sorry
for the child. When they received
him, "He had on a McDonald’s nap
kin and a plastic bread bag for a diap
er,” said Jackson. “They said he
hadn’t been bathed in a long time.”
Mrs. Hasty, 19, was released
Tuesday on $1,000 bond but her 21-
year-old husband remained jailed,
unable to meet bond.
“It’s a weird situation, ” said detec
tive Doug Acker. “You can’t imagine
anyone doing it.”
Acker said the Hastys’ home in the
Virginia Mines area northwest of
Bessemer had no hot water, refriger
ator or bed for the youngster.
Shark bites surfer
off Oregon coast
United Press International
CANNON BEACH, Ore.— The
^ lve men b een surfing for an
^ ” hour without incident off the north
ern Oregon coast. Then the shark
struck.
The fish slashed into one of the.
surfers Tuesday in a frenzy that sent ,
so much water splashing the other
four could barely see their compan
ion’s struggles.
The attack stopped just as sudden
ly as it began. Kenny Doudt, 26,
struggled weakly back onto his surf
board and floated toward shore. His
friends, pulled him from the water
with gashes in his left leg and broken
ribs.
Doudt, of Reedsport, Ore., was
hospitalized in Portland, Ore.,
where he underwent a two-hour
operation and was reported in stable
condition Wednesday.
Surfer Jack Bird of Seaside, Ore.,
said when the shark, which appeared
to be at least 10 feet long, emerged,
“I heard him (Doudt) yelling for help
and I looked over and could see a
little bit of gray rolling in the water.
T didn’t know it was a shark; Ken
ny wasn’t yelling shark, but a few
seconds later, its tail came out of the
water.
Bird said when the shark let
Doudt go, “Kenny was able to pull
himself back on his board.”
“He has a large bite on his left
flank and a couple of broken ribs,”
said John Holtermann, executive di
rector of the Seaside hospital.
Holtermann said Doudt was "con
scious, alert and talking” while he
Tons of snow
for Moscow
United Press International
WASHINGTON — During an av
erage winter in Moscow, the snow
cleared from the streets would cover
25 acres piled to a depth of 750 feet,
according to the National Geog
raphic Society.
was at the hospital.
“I know there are sharks off the
coast,” said Gizdavich, “but I never
heard of one attacking. It’s totally
unheard of in this water. ”
The type of shark that made the
attack was not known by the surfers;
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“The Jacksons went in there one
time and the kid was sick, sleeping
on the floor with just a blanket, no
bed, ” Acker said. “They brought the
kid home and got attached to him. ”
Acker said the couples had known
each other for some time.
The Hastys signed a statement re
linquishing all rights to the boy and
the Jacksons took Charles in last Fri
day. The Jacksons said they did not
plan to “buy” the boy, but merely
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