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SECTION 2 • PACE 1 • PLAINDEALER • FRIDAY. AUGUST 1«. 1M4 Pets provide a soft shoulder for many UPI photo Beating the heat Two swimmers in Dubuque, IA, found a way to beat the recent hot, humid weather that has plagued the Midwest in recent weeks. The youths are swimming in the Mississippi River. Dallas plans for its piece of the GOP convention pie By Dwayne UPI staff wi writer DALLAS -- The city is taking a cut of ail souvenir sales and a high legal overhead has pushed most of the prostitutes out of town -- but there's still a qfulck buck to be made off the Republican National Convention. And In this entrepreneur's paradise, they're finding a way to dolt. A Dallas intimate apparel shop has sold out one order of red and blue satin elephant-motif G- strings at $6.50 each and is expec­ ting a new, larger order before the convention opens. "We're trying to get them done In the donkey motif too, kind of as a Joke," said store manager Stacy Scott. "We think they will sell too." Others Intent on unconventional methods of making money off the convention also predict booming business. Margo St. James, founder of a San Francisco-based alliance of prostitutes, said her colleagues are looking forward to the Aug. 20- 23 Dallas conclave because "Republicans are kinkier and they spend more money."_X .. . But Dallas police say they are not worried. The city has dusted off an old ordinance that raised the fine for prostitution to $500. "Now their overhead is pro­ hibitive," said George parker, commander of the Dallas police's vice squad, who conceded the stiff fine may only force hookers to raise prices and move inside to the hotels where the 25,000 conven­ tioneers and news media will be housed. Prostitution won't be the only enterprise forced inside at the convention. Sidewalk sales of con­ vention novelties and souvenlers will be prohibited and the en­ trepreneurs eager to cash in will have to conform to a carefully or- chestrated sales scheme regulated by the city. "The city of Dallas, In an effort to generate revenue, Isolated the novelty merchandising part of the convention as a separate profit center," said Raymond Bayse, whose Texas Novelty Co. won the city contract to oversee conven­ tion novelty sales. "That's better than opening it up and letting everybody stand on the corner," he said. "We could have opened it up, but then nobody would have made any money." Bayee said the city will take a ftf-1|| novelty islet at the convention and predicted the municipal take would be at leaat $100,000, ' IDOC is predicting a low pheasant harvest this year By United Press International SPRINGFIELD - A survey conducted by the state Depart­ ment of Conservation shows Il­ linois may have its lowest phea­ sant harvest since estimates were first done in 1956, officials said. Mike Conlin, chief of the depart­ ment's fish and wildlife division, said the upcoming 1984 pheasant harvest is estimated at 204,000 birds, down 44 percent from the 1983 harvest of 363,000 pheasant. Conlin said the estimate is bas­ ed on data collected by depart­ ment wildlife biologists who con­ ducted ring-necked pheasant surveys of 42 separate census routes throughout the state. Conlin said the poor outlook for 1984 is due in part to extremely frigid temperatures during the winter of 1983. "This isn't the only cause. It does reflect the continual erosion of wildlife habitat. The birds simp­ ly don't have the basic com­ ponents of survival -- food, cover fQ>r concealment from predators, protection from the cold and a place to nest," Conlin said. "The pheasant population is New implant By! UPI Health Editor Patricia McCormack ' NEW YORK -- A $12,Q00 ear im- • plant for deaf people who. cannot benefit from hearing aids is ex­ pected to get Food and Drug Ad­ ministration approval for sale in fall, the manufacturer said lipweek. Users of the implant do not hear normal speech but can hear "static" generated by current flowing through a platinum wire, as thick as the lead in a pencil, put in the ear during two-hours of delicate microsurgery. The static, doctors said, enables users to pick up rhythm and vary­ ing loudness of speech sounds, in­ cluding their own. This improvement, coupled with lip-reading, enhances the user's ability to understand speech, said Dr. Simon Parisier, Manhattan Eye, Ear k Throat Hospital ex­ pert who helped field test the device after the FDA approved it for investigational use in 1979. By Patricia McCormack 17 UPI Health Editor America's going to the dogs -- and cats, fish, rabbits, birds and other pets claimed now to number 150 million. "It's good for health," says Dr. Michael J. McCulloch, a Portland, Ore., psychiatrist who pioneered pet therapy for tnose with broken spirits. To hear" him talk, a dog or cat can be a furry tranquilizer or pep pill one day and a crying towel the next -- depending on the mood of master or mistress. "It's good for children," says Dr. Lee Salk, child development expert and housemate of an orange and white cat, Seymour. Salk even claims pet ownership among childless couples may be an impetus for having a family. He says raising a pet reassures couples they have ability to be a good parent. "It's good for prisoners," says Dr. Ear l O. Str imple, a Washington, D.C., veterinarian who helps supply pets to the D.C. Department of Correction Central Facility in Lorton, Va., and who once cared for President Lyndon B. Johnson's beagles, Him and Her. "There isn't much chance for in­ timacy in Jail," Strimple said. "So to pick up a cat and stroke It is really remarkable. One guy has five cats and when he goes into the yard and whistles the cats come up to him." Strimple said pets first went to prison In Oakwood Forensic Center, Lima, Ohio, injured wild animals are cared for by the prisoners. "Three or four injured deer were there last time I visited," Strimple said. At Purdy Treatment Center for Women, Gig Harbor, Wash., Strimple said, prisoners train mutts to be "hearing ear" dogs for the deaf and also to fetch or pick up ' th ings for \people in wheelchairs. Strimple's prison pet project depends on good-heartedness on both sides of the bars. The pets come from animal shelters; food is donated by a pet food company, vitamins and vaccines come from drug companies. Some prisoners buy other things for their pets out of the $21 a month they earn in prison, the veterinarian said. A survey of 13,000 readers of Psychology Today, 12 percent of them non-pet owners, was the oc­ casion for a discussion about pets recently in New York. The survey found nearly 100 per­ cent of owners talk to their pets, some in baby talk. One in four mark their pet's birthday. And 54 percent of the pets share a bed with a family member. Owners ranked pets Immediate­ ly after family members and other relatives in Importance, and ahead of friends, neighbors and their Jobs. ' The report on the survey, said to be the first large-scale national survey on pets and people, also said pet owners are more satisfied with their lives and have higher self-esteem than non-owners. Pet owners consistently scored higher than non-owners in feelings of life satisfaction, self-esteem and overall well-being. Pet- owning respondents also reported feeling particularly excited or in­ terested about something in re­ cent weeks, as opposed to non- owners. "The fact that owners rank their pets third in their lives reinforces the notion that pets are a part of the family," McCullouch said. . "Pet owners value the con­ sistency and non-Judgmental nature of their relationship with a pet. Sometimes just the fact that the pet is there when his owner needs him is enough." Sixty-nine percent of the survey respondents said they turn to their pet when depressed. Asked why pets help when depression gets people down, Mc­ Culloch said: "The non-critical nature of a pet allows a person to air his feelings without the fear of being embarrassed or disputed. Pets draw us out of ourselves without judging us. Everyone needs a sounding board from time to time." u For the birds UPI photo Hummingbirds cluster around a feeder. The little birds will be safer with the announcement that North Central Plastics, of Minnesota, is taking off the market a red Insulator that Is blamed for elec­ trocuting the birds. The birds mistake the insulator for a food flower, perch on the wire and make the fatal short circuit when they probe Inside the intftilator. ^LOW PRICED Ml -$Till S LEFT! BUY NOW BEFORE THE 1985 PRICE INCREASE! LOOK nearing a level where it is increas­ ingly vulnerable. There are some exceptions. Pheasant call counts were much more optimistic in Mason, Christian, Logan and Lee counties." Conlin said the 1984 harvest of 204,000 compares to harvests of more than 1 million birds in 1962 and 1963. The 1983 harvest of 363,000 pheasants represented a 63 per­ cent increase from the 1982 total of 223,000 birds. Conlin said the one- year increase was due to the federal Payment In Kind acreage reduction program for farmers last year. "There is a definite correlation between decl ining pheasant numbers and increased acreage under cultivation, particularly row crops," Conlin said. "Since the disappearance of wildlife habitat is directly linked to the ongoing wind and water ero­ sion robbing farmers annually of valuable top soil, it would appear that the sportsman and farmer should be allies in seeking out a long-term answer. If we don't, the prospects are grim indeed." may aid deaf The "3M Cochlear Implant System.House Design," the na­ tion's first implant of its kind, is expected to help 200,000 people. Tne device will cost $4,000 and the operation will cost another $8,000, said a Spokesman for the 3M com­ pany. The entiy point for the Implant is the mastoid bone behind the ear. The wire covered with silicone is threaded to within three-quarters of an inch of the brain. Electricity generating the static comes from two cylindrical bat­ teries, half the size of those used in penlights, in a pack smaller than a deck of cards and worn on the belt or tucked Into clothing. The implant was developed in cooperation with the House Ear Institute in Los Angeles and nam­ ed for Dr. William F. House, pioneer in. implants in the cochlear, the spiral shaped part of the Internal ear contaning the auditory nerve endings. 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