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POYDRAS, La. — It’s easy Reagan for hard times, but who
enough for salesmen and auto ca n Irvan Perez blame for the
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serious rat recession?
The muskrat trapper from
Plaquemines Parish says pollu
tion and saltwater intrusion
have severely reduced the ro
dent population in the bayous of
southeast Louisiana.
“It used to be a lot better than
what it is now,” Perez said as he
prepared to leave his Pla
quemines Parish home for the
extensive marshland along
Louisiana’s choppy coastline.
“We ain’t going to get many
rats today,” he said.
The Louisiana native, 59, has
been catching muskrats every
winter since his early teens. But
because of the faltering muskrat
population, he says he can no
longer make a living solely from
trapping.
Tough times have hit the rat
trappers, he says, and relief does
not appear imminent.
In the years before and after
World War II, Perez and his
family could catch 350 to 400
muskrats daily from their traps
scattered throughout the maze
of bayous in Plaquemines and
St. Bernard parishes, he said.
These days, however, Perez
routinely comes home with few
er than 10 rats in his 70 traps.
Perez accepts the small catch
without anger though. Because
of dropping prices for muskrat
— $3.30 a pelt down from $7 last
year — Perez is one of the few
remaining trappers in a dying
trade.
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HOUSTON — At least 50
children with kidney disorders
will be able
camp this
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year because a
$100,000 dialysis unit is being
built at the Y.M.C.A. camp near
Trinity.
Rader Walker, executive di
rector of the National Kidney
Foundation chapter in Houston,
said the three-building dialysis
unit to be built at the 482-acre
Camp Cullen should be finished
in time for summer camp.
Dialysis works as an artificial
kidney, mechanically eliminat
ing impurities from the blood. It
requires a patient to be hooked
up to the machine for several
hours at a time.
Children who suffer from
kidney disorders usually must
stay near a dialysis facilty, where
they can receive weekly treat
ments. A report by the National
Kidney Foundation indicated
parents of the handicapped chil
dren often are overly protective
and frequently keep their
youngsters from getting in
volved in physical activities.
But kidney foundation offi
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Texas Department of Health’s
kidney care program showed
parents of at least 97 children
with renal disorders would like
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dialysis unit will be constructed
in a wooded area at the camp
and they will look like cabins.
Two of the buildings will house
the physician and nurses,
assigned to the camp by the Uni
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Dallas psychic fails to give
police missing child clues
United Press International
TOPEKA, Kan. — The latest
hopes of the parents of a girl, 5,
missing since September have
been dashed because a Dallas
psychic summoned to help find
the child did not turn up any
new clues.
John Catchings, 34, arrived
in Topeka late Friday and spent
about nine hours Saturday sear
ching in the snow with detectives
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left Topeka Sunday, says he has
been receiving information ab
out the child since about a
month after her disappearance.
“Everything he brought out
was already in the police reports
he got to read,” Weidner said.
“It was another source that so
far hasn’t panned out.”
Catchings told detectives he
thinks the girl will be found in an
area parallel to a mobile home
park. The girl was chased by a
man and then strangled, he said
Saturday.
Although Catchings admitted
he is not on target with every
prediction, he says he has
helped turn up information in
about all ot his cases.
Detective Sgt. Ed Kuehl,'
spent Saturday searching*
Catchings, said police hadi:
peel in mind in the case but
do nothing because no Wt
been found. The girls
appearance still is considertf
missing persons case,
said.
Catchings has thought!
the beginning that the little;
was killed shortly after hert
appearance, he said.
Friends and relativesofOl
and Judy Hay, the ch
rents, raised the money
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