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NEW YORK — Actress Anne Bancroft goes over her part
in a new upcoming Broadway play, “Golda,” in New
York. The actress will star as former Israeli Prime
Minister Golda Meir. (AP)
Former mailman still
dealing with words
KANSAS CITY, Mo. (AP) -
“Poetry can be fun,” says an
ex-mailman who decided it
would be more fun to write
greeting cards than to deliver
them.
Fun, in fact, is an essential
ingredient in his poetic recipe,
says 37-year-old Edward Cun
ningham, who likes to laugh at
life and, accordingly, doesn’t
take himself too seriously.
“When people think of poetry,
they think of something weigh
ty and cryptic,” he says. “Po
etry to most people is some
thing you have to ponder for
days. It doesn’t have to be. Po
etry can have meaning without
fracturing your mind.”
Cunningham, who started
with the company as a greeting
card writer after working as a
soda jerk, cook and postman,
now writes for Hallmark books.
He has written or collaborated
on some 50 books, which have
sold nearly three million copies
in card shops.
The son of an Irish immi
grant, he likes to sing the hun
dreds of Irish ballads he knows
but admits he can’t carry a
time. As a kid, he says, he was
no better at sports. A con
firmed benchwarmer, he played
only two downs in two years for
his high school football team.
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“I was sent into one game
and was so excited I ran over
the guy I was replacing. He
had to be helped off the field,”
relates Cunningham, whose
ironic view of his brief football
career is reflected in his poem,
“Sports Fans.”
He writes most of his poems
with his wife, Gail, in mind.
One, “An Accidental Valen
tine,” is based on an actual in
cident:
“Noticing the note on your
desk top
that began ‘Dear Mom and
Dad’
and was plainly none of my
business
I carefully devoured every
syllable
discovered
certain rave reviews about
myself
too flattering to repeat
and hoped
your folks would enjoy
hearing from you
as much as I had.”
That’s from “Sharing Our
Love,” his most recent book.
And though he’s one of the
most productive poets in Amer
ica, his fame hasn’t increased
greatly since his days of toting
a mailbag. But Cunningham
says that doesn’t bother him at
aIL
Georgia handbook
Business of raising crickets depends on fishing
By RALPH WILLINGHAM
The Columbus Ledger
For all his singing, the gray
cricket has little to sing about.
If he avoids the usual haz
ards, he might live to the ripe
old age of 13 weeks.
But more likely, unless he
gets eaten by ants or roaches,
he’ll die on a fisherman’s hook,
devoured by a crappie or a cat
fish.
You’d never know being a
cricket was so rough, to hear
thousands of them happily
chirping at the Cricket Co.,
four miles southwest of Phenix
City, Ala. Their surging,
screeching racket sounds like a
flying saucer in an old science
fiction movie.
W. E. Hatcher raises crickets
in an old building behind his
country store. He sells a few to
fishermen who pass by, but
mostly he’s a grower for bait
retailers in Columbus, Phenix
City and the surrounding areas.
Unlike the black crickets
which sneak into your house all
summer and hide beneath the
furniture, Hatcher’s gray crick
ets are slightly smaller, winged
bugs that grow up rectangular
boxes where they lie 250 deep.
Inside the boxes are egg car
tons or wood shavings in which
the crickets mate, lay eggs and
produce batch after batch of
fish bait.
Though each cricket box, or
brood, contains 10,000 to 15,000
crickets, Hatcher hasn’t been
able to keep up with the de
mand this season.
“All the cricket growers gave
out of crickets this year,” he
said. “West Point Lake’s fish
ing was good and all the lakes’
fishing is good because it’s
been so dry and the lakes were
down. I’ve never seen it before
where all the cricket growers
gave out.”
Hatcher also ran out of crick
ets in February because the
striped bass in the Chat
tahoochee River were biting so
well. The bait shops were doing
such a booming business that
their owners even wanted to
buy the minimum number of
crickets Hatcher needed to
keep his stock growing.
The fish don’t like the black
crickets familiar to most
people. But anybody can raise
his own gray crickets for fish
ing, though it’s tricky, said
Hatcher.
“A lot of people might want
to raise them in a cellar or
back room, but to raise them
properly you’ve got to raise
them in big amounts, and
you’ve got to keep the tempera
ture about 85-87 degrees,” said
Hatcher. “The feed is ex
pensive and you have to keep
them cool in the summer and
warm in the winter and the gas
and electricity bills are high.
“But it’s fairly easy to do
yourself if you keep the humid
ity down and have a fairly good
moving air stream and don’t let
it get too hot. They can’t stand
an awful lot of heat or cold.”
It’s also hard to protect them
from predators. Even though
the broods have screens on
them, ants can sometime get
in, sting the crickets and take
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their eggs. Roaches also attack
them.
“You can’t spray any in
secticides,” says Hatcher. “It
will kill the crickets before it
kills any ants or roaches. If
any residue of the insecticide
gets in a box, you might as
well throw the box away. Even
the residue will kill them.”
Crickets hatch in 12 to 15
days and reach full size in
eight to 10 weeks. Hatcher said
they like to eat potatoes, apples
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and oranges, but he feeds them
his own special mixture.
“Everybody has their own
different way to raise them and
their own different food,”
Hatcher said.
A grower who runs out of
crickets has to buy from anoth
er grower to get started again,
he said.
Hatcher said he learned how
to raise crickets by trial and
error, and he’s still learning.
“This fish bait business is
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something else,” he said. “Ev
erybody’d tell you something
different.”
He bought the grocery store
and cricket business after Lon
nie Taylor, the original owner,
lost one cricket house in a fire
about four years ago. The busi
ness has been at its location
more than 20 years.
Hatcher is vague about things
like investments and profits.
“Sometimes the store keeps
the cricket business going, and
sometimes the cricket business
keeps the store going,” he said.
He won’t reveal how much he
charges wholesalers, fearing
that fishermen will expect a
special deal at the same rate.
The Cricket Co. runs a deliv
ery route to its customers, and
when the fishing is good, as it
has been through the spring
and summer, Hatcher and his
helpers are on the road almost
every day.
