national Battalion/Page :f January 121| Quirks in the news Home evades taxes tress warrants on the house for $9,200 in unpaid personal property taxes dating to 1979. United Press International LINCOLN, Neb. — De puties attempting to serve papers for non-payment of taxes found the home they were seeking had vanished, leaving behind an empty lot and a muddy trail. But Lancaster County sheriffs deputies were not de terred. “They followed the old mud trail and found it,” depu ty Roy Ostrander said. A deputy had seen the house being moved to a new site a mile away, but didn’t realize it was the one that owed back taxes, he said. The deputies posted dis- A whale of a find URBANA, Ill. — Universi ty of Illinois officials are not sure what their unique copy of “Moby Dick” is worth, but they know it is a rare edition. The first American edi tion, in two volumes, of Her man Melville’s novel — with a title page displaying the book’s English title, “The Whale” — was found in 1977. But it wasn’t until late last year that the professor of English who discovered it learned of the book’s authenticity. Professor George Hen drick discovered the book in a trunk in a home two blocks from his office. This fall, a noted Melville scholar, G. Thomas Tanselle, published results of an exhaustive study in the “Book Collector,” con firming the discovery is a uni que copy of the novel. A clipping in one of the volumes indicated it had come from the library of the author. A signature of Melville’s brother also appeared in the book, Hendrick said. The current value of the book is unknown, but in 1977 a different copy, signed by Melville before he gave it to one of his old shipmates, sold at auction for $53,000. Community comes to help Boy allergic to blood United Press International BOSTON — The Red Cross says its phones are “ringing off the hook” with offers of blood for John Duckworth, the 3-year- old boy who is allergic to his own blood and needs 30 pints a day to stay alive. The boy is in serious condi tion at Children’s Hospital Medical Center. Doctors said he suffers from a defect that causes antibodies to attack his blood platelets — the cells that allow the blood to clot. The antibodies also may attack red and white blood cells and make him prone to infec tion, doctors said. John, who was born with the mysterious ailment, once needed the platelets from 50 pints of blood a day. He already nas undergone six operations, including brain surgery on New Year’s Day. “They call it the John Duck worth disease because they have never seen anything like it,” said the boy’s father, John Duck worth, of Hudson, Mass. A Red Cross spokeswoman in Boston said donations had soared since the boy’s condition became public. A special blood drive in Boston during the weekend brought in 880 pints, she said. “The phone has been ringing off the wall with people who want to donate blood, or groups that want to set up blood drives,” she said. “We’ve had calls from all over the country,” added hospital spokeswoman Judy Hearst. “And more blood will be needed for John.” A portable bloodmobile was to be set up between 2 p.m. and 8 p.m. today in the boy’s home town of Hudson, a community of 10,000 people 25 miles west of Boston. 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