PAGE 10 -- The
Perkins Journal Thursday, February
9. 1984
Attorney informs MI Club
ladies of women's, rights
by Dr. Jeff Black
Profeuor of Bloiosy
OMsboma Baptlst, Universlty
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Chipmunks
One of my readers jok-
ingly suggested that I
could get accused of child
abuse after reading my
column and seeing pic-
tures of Our sons with
bird b beaks hanging onto
their flugera I pointed out
to him that it is called
'Abuse by Animals" and
would be thoroughly en-
joyed by moat parents at-
tempting to raise two
teenage sons whose hor-
mone levels and resulting
moods rise and fall with
the tide Their lives are
probably typical of many
which stands for
fo a Biologist."
Whenever I return to
for a visit, people
always ask what I do for
a living. When I tell them
that I teach biology and
study animals, some of
the older people remark
that I did that when I was
a boy. There is a lot of
truth to the statement
that ' iologists are kids
that don have to grow
up."
I always had animals in
and around our home that
were tolerated by my pa~
ente. I learned the hard
way that I didn coil up a
dead snake on the steps
and wait for my mother to
come out the door. I also
learned that I would have
to clean up the messes
made by any animals that
I brought into the house
The experience of crawl-
ing under the bed to clean
up the stinking mess
made by a wild and sick
cat that I brought into the
house still makes my
stomach churn and brings
back memories of how
sick I became.
One animal that Our
whole family enjoyed as a
pet was the chipmunk.
Chipmunks are small
reddish-brown squirrels
with fiat hairy tails and
dark and light stripes on
the head and back. There
were lots of different
kinds of chipmunks in
Oregon whereas Oklaho-
ma has only one kind of
chipmunk, the Eastern
Chipmunk.
I grew up chasing chip-
munks through the woods
and this behavior lasted
into college One of our
favorite pastimes during
the lunch hour in the sum-
mer when I was working
for the Forest Service, was
for several of us to, chase
and try to catch chip-
munka Three or four over,
grown and husky college
students would practical-
ly tear up a forest in pur-
suit of a tiny chipmunk.
No log was too large for us
f
to turn over if a chipmunk
decidad that was the pkee
to hide. During one of our
lunch hour chipmunk
chases, the adrenalin was
flowing and a larger than
usual log was lifted and
the chipmunk captured .
and then mleas Later
that dab, the pain became
greater in my lower abdo-
men and the local doctor
was visited. The chip-
munhe had gotten their found food storage areas
revenge as I had a hernial with caches of acorns and
I don remember how I animal food stolen out of
explained this "job- the bamyar All these
related injury," but sur- things proved that a
pry was soon performed population of Eastern
and I spent the rest of the Chipmunks did exist at
summer recovering, work- the Hunsickers in Pot-
ing in the office and feel- tawatomie County.
ing foolish. Unfortunately, We then began to
I still love to chase a wonder ff chipmunks oc-
squirrel, but I am very currod in other areas of
careful about the size of the county as well as ad-
logs that I help to lift. jacent countie To find
I was thus very familiar out, we dacidse to start
with chipmunks when a knocking on thedoore of
few years ago a strident in
my Ruth Hunsicker,
told me about the chip-
munks around her home
I found out that Ruth
lived north of Earisbona I
checked with Dr. Bryan P.
Glass at OSU, and with
Stovall Museum at OU.
All the evidsnces indicat
ed that Eastern Chip.
munks were found in the
Ozarks of eastern Oklaho-
ma where they Hved on
rocky slopes and in forest,
ed ravinea The closest one
had ever been seen to Pot-
tawatomie County was
near Sand Springs in T~I-
sa County, I told Ruth
that I didn think there
could be chipmunks
around her house and that
she was probably seeing
thirteen-lined ground
squirrels. I gave her a live
trap to catch one of the
squirrels and within a cou-
ple of days, Ruth walked
into lab with a live trap
containing an Eastern
Chipmunk. I had really
been proven wrong.
My first thought was
that this chipmunk had
probably been someone's
pet that had escaped or
been released. Eastern
Chipmunks used to be
commonly sold as pets all
over the U.S. and it was
not uncommon for one to
be released after it be-
came older, wild and
mean.
Our next step was to de
termine if more than one
chipmunk existed in the
area and it didn take
Ruth long to capture
some mere as well as a
specimen that drowned in
a bucket of water, We even
got to have a chipmunk
chase when a rock was
turned over and out ran a
young chipmunk. We
houses in the eastern part
of the county and ask if
they had seen chipmunkL
The student, Tim
Hunkapillar, didn have
very good luck in obtain-
ing information. He car-
ried a small painting of a
chipmunk to show people
and they all thought he
was trying to sell them
the painting and rapidly
closed their doors[
A man at a gas station
along Highway 9 and the
Howard Vincents let us
set live traps on their
property south of Earls-
l)oro in Pottawatomie and
Seminole counties. We
once again caught chip-
munks which proved that
populations occurred in
several parts of this
county and adjacent
Seminole County.
We then gathered all the
information we could find
on Chipmunks in Oklaho-
ma and put this and the
information from Pot-
tawatomie County we had
gathered into written
form. This manuscript
was in turn reviewed by
three anonymous biolo-
gists and eventually pub-
lished in a scientific
journal
This published journal
meant that other people
interested in chipmunks
could now know that we
had extended the range of
the chipmunk nearly 70
miles westward into Pot-
tawatomie County. Study
skins of local chipmunks
have been sent to several
other universities around
the United States and
COYLE JR. HIGH Coyle girls took third
WIN AT CARNEY place after a double over-
TOURNAMENT time game. Bluejackets
Glencoe grade team fell trailed 17-7 at halftime.
to Coyle Thursday night Coyle tied the score at 24
in the Carney tournament at the end of regulation
in two overtime games, play. Final score was
Winning gave the 32-30.
Bluejacket boys firstCoyle's top scorer was
place and the Coyle girls Michele Perrin with 25
third place, points. She sank 10 field
The Coyle boys beat goals and five free throws.
Glencoe 35-32 in overtime. She received a Most Valu-
Coyle led 22-9 at halftim able Forward trophy. Jea-
Glencoe tied the score nine Flasch added three
32-32 at the end of regu- points and Brenda Phil-
lation time. lips had four.
Rodney Nottingham ledTop scorer for Glencoe
Coyle with 23 points. Tim was Summers with five
Hatter added five points, from the field and one free
Dale Lindsey scored four, throw. Also Gazaway with
Bobble Priess had two, four field goals and three
and Eddie Spaulding free throws. Sumpter ad-
scored one. ded six points. Most Valu-
Glencoe's top scorer able guard was given to
was Schaefer with 11 Number 20.
points. Linsenmeyer
scored seven, Shell had 6 GETS WATER GRANT
points, and Staton and BILLINGS -- A
Ross each cored four. $19,455 grant for a water
Coyle's Rodney Nottin- works construction
gham and Tim Hatter project in Billings has
received trophies for All- been approved. It is a 15
Tournament team players; percent match to a grant
Dale Lindsey receivedby DECA of $110,000
Most Valuable Player through the state water
trophy, resources beard.
used in studies on differ-
ences between Eastern
Chipmunks from different
parts of the U.S.
It is the excitement of
discoveries like the chip-
munks that have made
field biology and the
study of animals an excit-
ing career for me. The en-
joyment of sharing this
information with you and
learning new information
from you is an added bo-
nus that I look forward to
each weekl
The Mutual Improve- women have or have not also tom us about
ment Club met February changed. He told us that rights of husbands
2nd in the home of Thris- the law is always moving fathers, as well
sa Johnson. Pat Niles con- and as society is ready, the grandparents.
ducted the business law will change. John then
meeting, at which time He told us that there questions that the
Anna Marie Evans were four ways to own had concerning the
reported that two books property and explainedEveryone felt very
had been purchased by about each way. They nored to have him
the club for the Thomas- were: 1. individually, 2. with us as Waiters is q
Wilhite Library. tenant in common, 3. a distance from
Thrissa then introduced partners, and 4. jointare all
her guest for the evening, tenancy, about our
her brother, John Scaggs. John explained to the were before his visit.
John lives in Waiters. Ok- group about two laws that Thrisea
lahoma, where he has have been enacted to pro- refreshments
been a practicing attorney tect women. One is theof red velvet cake,
for 10 years. He received Homestead Rite which spiced punch,
a degree in Sociology from states that the homestead candles and nuts to
Oklahoma City Universi- cannot be sold or encum- guest, John Scaggs,
ty and his law degree from bered without the spouses to members: Juanita i
the University of Oklaho- agreement. Another is the singer, Elaine Pamon
ma. He holds member- Widow's AllowancewhichNile Ella B.
ships in the Oklahoma protects the wife if the Anna Marie Evans
and Federal Bar Associa- husband omits her fromAcuff, Virginia
tions, and has served as his will. The wife has the Yvonne Evans,
an Assistant District At- right to as much of the Holbrook, Ellen
torney. John spoke to the property as she would and Joan McDanieL
group on 'Women and the have received if he had Before leaving,
Law." had no wilL one enjoyed a
He began his presenta- He told the group about through the
tion by going from the the Anti-Nuptial Agree- lovely new Country
time of Abraham until the ment, and then explained The next meeting
presentt time explaining about the rights of wom- held February
how the laws concerning en in divorce cases. He home of Yvonne
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