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Going to the Dogs Helped
BY CHARLES SALTER
Jounul State Editor
JACKSON, Ga.—A hobo climbed aboard a freight train
one morning in the early 1930 sand soon came face to face
with an old-timer who had a record of many stolen rides.
{ “Look out or a cinder dick will get you,” the more ex
perienced hobo warned.
He was referring to the railroad detectives who main
tained respectable batting averages in arrests of hoboes and
thieves in the South during the Great Depression.
In Jackson, I shook hands with a retired “cinder dick”
named Bob Clark, 73, who worked 36 years for the Southern
Railway System.
it During the 1930 sand 19405, when trains made regular
stops for coal and water, thieves tried to break into freight
cars loaded with cases of cigarettes or barrels of whisky on
numerous occasions.
“They’d use any means they could to get ’em,” said
Clark. “They opened the doors, even cut holes in the roof of a
boxcar.
“There were lots of thefts, especially in the mountains of
North Carolina and eastern Tennessee. The freights had to go
so slow up a grade, and thieves could climb up top and cut
the roof open with a fireman’s ax and have a buddy following
along to throw case after case of cigarettes to.”
Pack case contained about 100 cartons of cigarettes,
which thieves could easily sell for considerable amounts of
money.
“Eventually we would catch them,” said Clark.
Clark and his big, black dog live in a house on the bank
of Lake Jackson. One of his favorite pastimes, naturally, is
An investigation of cigarette thefts in North Carolina
once resulted in a close call for Clark.
Railroad police had arranged to let a car thief steal six
cases of cigarettes so they could follow him to the fence in
Charlotte.
“I got to climbing up the side of a car watching him, and
one of our officers started shooting at me,” said Clark, grin
ning about his frightening predicament.
“We wound up letting the thief get away, and he took six
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TROPICAL FISH:
SOME BASIC
CONSIDERATIONS
The key to establishing and
maintaining a thriving
aquarium can be sum
marized briefly: proper food,
water quality and stocking.
Of the three, water quality
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Place a rubber crutch tip on
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Cinder Dick Will Get You, Hobo of Old Warned Freeloader
is probably the most im
portant, and the secret here
lies in preparation. Water
straight from the tap,
containing chlorine or fluo
ride compounds, is not
suitable for most tropical
fish. Tap water for an
aquarium should age in an
open container for two or
three days so that the
chlorine will evaporate.
Aging, however, will not
eliminate fluoride com
pounds. These can be
neutralized by adding a
chemical compound avail
able in stores.
Most fish prefer soft
(slightly acidic) water. You
can modify standard tap
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rainwater, which is usually
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until several minutes after
the start of a storm, so that
dust and dirt have been
washed from the air. A pH kit
will help in determining the
acidity of the water in your
aquarium. Many factors -
including the addition of
water to compensate for
evaporation or waste
products from plants and fish
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808 CLARK WITH RAILROAD FOR 36 YEARS
Matched Wits with Boxcar Thieves
cases of cigarettes, and we never saw him anymore.”
Fortunately the railroad policeman’s bullets missed
Clark.
•-- can change the water’s pH.
It should be checked once a
month and corrected, if
necessary.
Water temperature is also
important to the health of
tropical fish. Your main
concern should be with
temperature extremes and
temperature fluctuations.
Frequent changes in temper
ature, even within the
favorable range of 70 degrees
to 85 degrees F., can force
fish to make adjustments
that leave them weakened
and susceptible to disease.
An aquarium thermometer
and heater can aid in keeping
the tank at the proper
temperature.
A properly balanced
aquarium needs regular
small additions of aged water
to compensate for evapora
tion. There should be no need
to replace the entire volume
of water at one time. Cloudy
or greenish water is best
controlled by correcting the
underlying problem -- over
feeding, excessive sunlight --
rather than by periodic
emptying of the tank’s
contents.
Overfeeding is a common
cause of cloudy water.
Leftover food spoils quickly
contaminating the water and
encouraging the growth of
harmful bacteria. If there is
any food left on the water
surface or on the tank bottom
ten minutes after feeding,
you are providing too much.
Your fish should be hungry
enough to feed actively and
search for stray particles in
the water before you feed
again.
Although some fish will
thrive on a steady diet of the
same dried food, an occa
sional meal of live food helps
keep them in top condition.
This is especially desirable if
you wish to breed your fish.
Brine shrimp eggs (hatched
at home) and white worms
are generally available at pet
shops; mosquito larvae and
daphnia (also called water
fleas) can be caught in
shallow ponds or swampy
areas. If none of these are
available to you, scatter a bit
of very finely diced fish in the
aquarium once or twice a
month.
There is always the
temptation to overstock your
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In many cases, hoboes would be sentenced to three or
four-day jail terms that would be served with roadbuilding
crews in rural areas.
The Bull’s Gap water tank was a favorite spot for
thieves in Tennessee to break into boxcars.
One night in the 1930s at Bull’s Gap, Clark ana two other
officers lay in wait for thieves in snow, rain and sleet until 3
o’clock, when they decided it was time to take a break for a
meal.
“A lieutenant said he knew this old lady ’way back in the
hollow that we’d wake up,” said Clark. “We were hungry and
wet, and we knocked on the door, and Aunt so-and-so said,
‘Come on in and sit down.’
“In about 30 minutes she came out of the kitchen with a
platter of country ham, sausage, eggs, grits, hot biscuits and
a pot of coffee.”
After enjoying the big meal, the officers asked how
much they owed her.
She hesitated a moment, then looked up and asked, “Do
you think 35 cents apiece will be too much?”
Clark recalled a case involving two brothers who were
rather famous boxcar thieves. One of the men was arrested,
and officers pressed their search for his brother.
“A week later they were checking a freight train and
opened the door to a refrigerator car, and there he was—
frozen to death.”
One of the most unusual cases involved a woman in a
passenger department who was accused of discarding some
train tickets with slight imperfections, taking them home and
giving them to her mother.
“She would ride to Washington and back home after see
ing baseball games,” said Clark, chuckling. “She was a big
baseball fan in Washington.”
Perhaps Clark’s most memorable train ride was the
journey from Warm Springs, Ga., to Washington in 1945 after
the death of President Franklin D. Roosevelt.
“Mrs. Roosevelt made us slow down at every little
town,” he said.
“It was a hot day, and I saw crowds of people lining the
tracks and some of them were so emotional that they fainted,
flopped over.”
aquarium. In a tank with no
aeration system, calculate
one inch or fish (excluding
tail) per gallon of water for
proper spacing. A good air
pump will let you double the
stocking capacity of the tank
since moving water will
absorb a great deal more
oxygen. The fish you stock
should be compatible in size
and temperament. With a
little reading, you will
discover individual dif
ferences in varieties -- those
fish that do best in pairs and
those that tolerate other
smaller fish.
Even with the best environ
mental conditions and proper
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stocking, there may come a
time when you notice a fish
with a scattering of suspi
cious white spots, or one with
limp fins that stays near the
bottom. These are only two of
the signs that can indicate
illness. Ich, the most com
mon disease of aquarium
fish, is identified by white
pinhead-sized spots scattered
over the body and fins. Fuzzy
irregular cottonlike patches
on the fish are signs of fungal
infection. They generally
occur on a fish that already
has a bruise or other skin
injury.
Treatment for these prob
lems varies. Bacterial infec-
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tions are best controlled by
antibiotics, while fungus
growths can be treated with
dilute antiseptic solutions.
Often a warm salt water bath
can be used to encourage
parasites to loosen their hold
on the fish’s skin, so the
parasites can be exposed to
the proper medication. Your
veterinarian may be able to
recommend a reference book
that will list the proper
concentrations and types of
remedies for your tropical
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Child abuse figures in this
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There are 360 reported cases
of child abuse for every one
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Specialists say many other
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family.